- a retail store, especially a small one.
- a small store or department in a large store selling a specific or select type of goods: the ski shop at Smith's.
- the workshop of a craftsperson or artisan.
- the workshop of a person who works in a manual trade; place for doing specific, skilled manual work: a carpenter's shop.
- any factory, office, or business: Our ad agency is a well-run shop.
- Education.
- a course of instruction in a trade, as carpentry, printing, etc., consisting chiefly of training in the use of its tools and materials.
- a classroom in which such a course is given.
- one's trade, profession, or business as a subject of conversation or preoccupation.
- to visit shops and stores for purchasing or examining goods.
- to seek or examine goods, property, etc., offered for sale: Retail merchants often stock their stores by shopping in New York.
- to seek a bargain, investment, service, etc. (usually followed by for): I'm shopping for a safe investment that pays good interest.
- to seek or examine goods, property, etc., offered for sale in or by: She's shopping the shoe stores this afternoon.
- Chiefly British Informal.
- to put into prison; jail.
- to behave treacherously toward; inform on; betray.
- to try to sell (merchandise or a project) in an attempt to obtain an order or contract.
- (used in a store, shop, etc., in calling an employee to wait on a customer.)
- to go into business; begin business operations: to set up shop as a taxidermist.
- shut up shop,
- to close a business temporarily, as at the end of the day.
- to suspend business operations permanently: They couldn't make a go of it and had to shut up shop.
- to discuss one's trade, profession, or business: After dinner we all sat around the table and talked shop.
- a place, esp a small building, for the retail sale of goods and services
- an act or instance of shopping, esp household shopping
- a place for the performance of a specified type of work; workshop
- all over the shop informal
- in disarray
- in every direction
- shut up shop
- to close business at the end of the day or permanently
- to become defensive or inactive
- to speak about one's work, esp when meeting socially, sometimes with the effect of excluding those not similarly employed
- to visit a shop or shops in search of (goods) with the intention of buying them
- to inform on or betray, esp to the police
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