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Shop   /ʃɑp/   Listen
noun
Shop  n.  
1.
A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail. "From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The polished counter."
2.
A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop. "A tailor called me in his shop."
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.
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.
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. (Colloq.) 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.
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.)
Synonyms: Store; warehouse. See Store.


verb
Shop  v. i.  (past & past part. shopped; pres. part. shopping)  To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods. "He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping."


Shop  v.  obs. Imp. of Shape. Shaped.





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"Shop" Quotes from Famous Books



... indeed, that these naked and serious things should be left standing, even if only to counterbalance the lewdly comic efforts to besmirch love and sex, which are visible to all in every low-class bookseller's shop window. ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... The shop was dark but headlights flashed by out on Wisconsin Avenue, glaring over the meager display of objects in Mr. Wicker's window. There seemed even fewer objects than before, Chris thought, for the carved figure of the Nubian boy ...
— Mr. Wicker's Window • Carley Dawson
... having been born in a fuller's shop, as was reported, in Epiphania, a town of Cilicia, and having caused the ruin of many individuals, was, contrary both to his own interest and to that of the commonwealth, ordained bishop of Alexandria, a city which from its ...
— The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus • Ammianus Marcellinus
... limited and, anxious as he was to please his daughter, he felt it his duty to beat the dealer down. He ended by paying sixty-five francs. As he was writing down his address, a well-groomed and well-dressed young man, who had been hunting through the shop in every direction, caught sight of the ...
— The Blonde Lady - Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsne Lupin and the English Detective • Maurice Leblanc
... press; adjective jerker^, diaskeaust^, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a liner; editor, subeditor^; playwright &c 599; poet &c 597. bookseller, publisher; bibliopole^, bibliopolist^; librarian; bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop. knowledge of books, bibliography; book learning &c (knowledge) 490. Phr. among the giant fossils of my past [E. B. Browning]; craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux [Fr.]; for authors nobler palms remain [Pope]; I lived to write and wrote to live [Rogers]; look in thy heart and write ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget


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