Definitions for shop
ʃɒpshop

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shop, storenoun

   a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services

   "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod"

2. workshop, shopnoun

   small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done

3. shop class, shopverb

   a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity)

   "I built a birdhouse in shop"

4. shopverb

   do one's shopping

   "She goes shopping every Friday"

5. patronize, patronise, shop, shop at, buy at, frequent, sponsorverb

   do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of

6. shop, browseverb

   shop around; not necessarily buying

   "I don't need help, I'm just browsing"

7. denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stagverb

   give away information about somebody

   "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"

GCIDERate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shopnoun

   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.

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shopnoun

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

2. shopnoun

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

3. shopnoun

   An automobile mechanic's workplace.

4. shopnoun

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

5. shopnoun

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

6. shopnoun

   an organisation using specified programming languages or software, often exclusively.

   Our company is mostly a Java shop.

7. shopnoun

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

   This is where I do my weekly shop.

8. shopverb

   To visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something.

   I went shopping ; he's shopping for clothes.

9. shopverb

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

10. shopverb

    Shorthand for photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.

11. shopinterjection

    Used to attract the services of a shop assistant

12. Etymology: From shoppe, from sceoppa

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shopnoun

   Etymology: sceop , Saxon, a magazine; eschoppe, French; shopa, low Latin.] Robert Ainsworth

   1. A place where any thing is sold.

   Our windows are broke down,
   And we for fear compell’d to shut our shops. William Shakespeare.

   Your most grave belly thus answer’d;
   True is it, my incorporate friends,
   That I receive the general food at first,
   Which you do live upon; and fit it is,
   Because I am the store-house and the shop
   Of the whole body. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   In his needy shop a tortoise hung,
   An alligator stuft, and other skins
   Of ill-shap’d fishes; and about his shelves
   A beggarly account of empty boxes. William Shakespeare.

   Scarce any sold in shops could be relied on as faithfully prepared. Boyle.

   His shop is his element, and he cannot with any enjoyment of himself live out of it. Robert South, Sermons.

   2. A room in which manufactures are carried on.

   We have divers mechanical arts and stuffs made by them; and shops for such as are not brought into vulgar use. Francis Bacon.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shop

   A shop is a physical location or an online platform where goods or services are sold to customers by a retailer or a business entity. It can range from small local businesses to large department stores or supermarkets, offering various items such as groceries, clothing, electronics, etc. In an online context, a shop can refer to a website or an application where customers make transactions digitally.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shop

   imp. of Shape. Shaped

2. Shopnoun

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

3. Shopnoun

   a building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop

4. Shopverb

   to visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods

5. Etymology: [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.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shop

   shop, n. a building in which goods are sold by retail: a place where mechanics work, or where any kind of industry is pursued: one's own business or profession, also talk about such.—v.i. to visit shops for the purpose of buying.—v.t. (slang) to imprison:—pr.p. shop′ping; pa.p. shopped.—ns. Shop′-bell, a small automatic bell hung to give notice of the opening of a shop-door; Shop′-board, a bench on which work, esp. that of tailors, is done; Shop′-boy, -girl, a boy or girl employed in a shop; Shop′-keeper, one who keeps a shop for the sale of goods by retail; Shop′keeping, the business of keeping a shop; Shop′-lift′er; Shop′-lift′ing, lifting or stealing anything from a shop; Shop′man, one who serves in a shop: a shopkeeper; Shopoc′racy, shopkeepers collectively; Shop′ping, the act of visiting shops to see and buy goods.—adj. Shop′py, commercial: abounding in shops: given to talking shop: concerning one's own pursuit.—ns. Shop′-walk′er, one who walks about in a shop and sees the customers attended to; Shop′woman, a woman employed in a shop.—adj. Shop′-worn, somewhat tarnished by being exposed in a shop.—Fancy shop, a shop where fancy goods are sold.—Shut up shop (coll.), to abandon any enterprise; The other shop (slang), a rival institution or establishment; The whole shop (slang), entirely; Talk shop (coll.), to converse unseasonably about one's own profession. [A.S. sceoppa, a treasury (influenced by O. Fr. eschoppe, a stall.)]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shop

   A type of business, company, enterprise or organization.

   The shop sells a variety of goods and they have a number of shops too.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 20, 2020  

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   shop

   A type of retail business, company, enterprise or organization.

   The shop sells a variety of goods and they have a number of shops too.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 20, 2020  

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   shop

   Go into a shop to purchase.

   The family choose to shop when they have eaten the food they bought.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 9, 2020  

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1. SHOP

   What does SHOP stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the SHOP acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shop

   Theatrical slang for an engagement.

Matched Categories

1. • Commerce
   • Obtain
   • Search
   • Workplace

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'shop' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1167

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'shop' in Written Corpus Frequency: #479

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'shop' in Nouns Frequency: #257

4. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'shop' in Verbs Frequency: #834

Anagrams for shop »

1. hops

2. hosp

3. OHPs

4. posh

5. soph

6. phos

How to pronounce shop?

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How to say shop in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of shop in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of shop in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of shop in a Sentence

1. Anthony DeStefano:

   I'm not saying the mob can't do anything or can't hurt you, but the big rackets have been sort of tied up by the feds and the police. They don't exist. The big labor racketeering rackets, the big concrete syndicates, the big garment industry rackets don't exist anymore. You have local businesses, like the restaurants, maybe an auto body shop, that could be muscled by the mob. That's where it still works. But the old-time stuff, forget it.

2. Fraser McKevitt:

   Grocery ... inflation hit its highest rate since August 2020, when retailers were still cutting promotions (during the pandemic) to maintain stock on the shelves, as prices increase in certain categories, we can expect shoppers to continue to visit several supermarkets and shop around to find the best deals.

3. Todd Rosenbluth:

   There's not a lot of whitespace left that isn't being taken up by passive funds or well-established active funds. Unless it's a fund manager starting up his own shop, the only way for most funds to break in is to market a more sophisticated strategy.

4. Shanta Nurullah.Keewa Nurullah:

   When people come in the shop and I stir up those conversations, it's not just purely transactional for me, you never know how people will end up being instrumental in your life.

5. Robert Ingersoll:

   After Curt and I were turned away from our local flower shop, we cancelled the plans for our dream wedding because we were afraid it would happen again, we hope this decision sends a message to other LGBTQ people that no one should have to experience the hurt that we did.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=shop
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=shop
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Shop
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=shop
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shop
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=shop
8. ^ Etymology and Origins
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=shop