From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
shop
n 1: a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or
services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod" [syn:
store]
2: small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done
[syn: workshop]
3: a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or
electricity); "I built a birdhouse in shop" [syn: {shop
class}]
v 1: do one's shopping; "She goes shopping every Friday"
2: do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or
client of [syn: patronize, patronise, shop at, {buy
at}, frequent, sponsor] [ant: boycott]
3: shop around; not necessarily buying; "I don't need help, I'm
just browsing" [syn: browse]
4: give away information about somebody; "He told on his
classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce,
tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit,
snitch, stag]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Shop \Shop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shopped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Shopping.]
To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
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He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go
shopping. --Byron.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Shop \Shop\, obs.
imp. of Shape. Shaped. --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Shop \Shop\, n. [OE. shoppe, schoppe, AS. sceoppa a treasury, a
storehouse, stall, booth; akin to scypen a shed, LG. schup a
shed, G. schoppen, schuppen, a shed, a coachhouse, OHG.
scopf.]
1. A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs,
etc., are sold by retail.
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From shop to shop
Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks
The polished counter. --Cowper.
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2. A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe
shop; a car shop.
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A tailor called me in his shop. --Shak.
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3. A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like,
as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.;
-- sometimes in deprecation or disapproval; as, to talk
shop at a party. Also used attributively, as in shop talk.
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4. A place where any industry is carried on; as, a chemist's
shop; also, (Slang), any of the various places of business
which are commonly called offices, as of a lawyer, doctor,
broker, etc.
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5. Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc.
[Slang, Chiefly Eng.]
6. the group of workers and the activities controlled by an
administrator; as, to have five people in one's shop.
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Note: Shop is often used adjectively or in composition; as,
shop rent, or shop-rent; shop thief, or shop-thief;
shop window, or shop-window, etc.
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To smell of the shop, to indicate too distinctively one's
occupation or profession.
To talk shop, to make one's business the topic of social
conversation; also, to use the phrases peculiar to one's
employment. [Colloq.]
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Syn: Store; warehouse. See Store.
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