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Definition of Shop

1. Noun. A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services. "He bought it at a shop on Cape Cod"

2. Verb. Do one's shopping. "She goes shopping every Friday"

3. Noun. Small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done.

4. Verb. Do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of.

5. Noun. A course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity). "I built a birdhouse in shop"

6. Verb. Shop around; not necessarily buying. "In the summer they like to go out and shop"; "I don't need help, I'm just browsing"

7. Verb. Give away information about somebody. "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"

Definition of Shop

1. n. A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.

2. v. i. To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.

3. n. A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; -- generally in deprecation.

Definition of Shop

1. Noun. An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well. ¹

2. Noun. A place where things are crafted; a workshop or hobbyshop. ¹

3. Noun. An automobile mechanic's workplace. ¹

4. Noun. Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as ''shop talk'', ''closed shop'' and ''shop floor''. ¹

5. Noun. A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill. ¹

6. Noun. (business computing) an organisation using specified programming languages or software, often exclusively. ¹

7. Noun. An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies. ¹

8. Verb. (intransitive) To visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something. ¹

9. Verb. (transitive) To report or "grass up" the criminal or otherwise wrong activities or whereabouts of (a suspect) to an authority. ¹

10. Verb. (transitive internet slang) Shorthand for ''photoshop''; to digitally edit a picture or photograph. ¹

11. Interjection. Used to attract the services of a shop assistant ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shop

1. to examine goods with intent to buy [v SHOPPED, SHOPPING, SHOPS]

Medical Definition of Shop

1. 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." (Cowper) 2. A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop. "A tailor called me in his shop." (Shak) 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. Synonym: Store, warehouse. See Store. Origin: 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shop

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