shop
Noun:
- A small retail establishment: A place where goods are sold directly to customers.
- A place for making or repairing things: A workshop or a place where skilled manual work or manufacturing is done.
- A course of instruction in a trade: A class, often in a school, where practical skills like carpentry or mechanics are taught.
Verb:
- To visit stores to look at or buy goods: The act of going to stores, often to browse or purchase items.
- To inform on someone (informal): To betray someone by giving information about them to an authority.
- To do one's shopping at a particular store: To be a customer of a specific store.
Noun:
- I need to stop by the grocery shop on my way home. (I need to visit the grocery store.)
- He's a skilled mechanic who works in the repair shop. (He works in the workshop.)
- In high school, I learned woodworking in shop class. (I learned it in the trade class.)
Verb:
- We decided to shop for a new sofa this weekend. (We decided to look for a new sofa in stores.)
- The criminal shopped his accomplices to the police for a lighter sentence. (He informed on his partners.)
- My family has always shopped at that local bakery. (My family has always been customers there.)
"to talk shop": To talk about one's work or business, especially in a social setting.
- At the dinner party, the engineers started to talk shop, boring everyone else. (They started discussing work topics.)
"to set up shop": To start a business or begin operating in a place.
- After graduating, she set up shop as a freelance graphic designer. (She started her own business.)
"to shut up shop": To close a business, either temporarily or permanently.
- The old bookstore finally shut up shop last month. (It closed down permanently.)
Shopping (n): The activity of visiting shops to buy things.
- I do my grocery shopping on Saturdays.
Shopper (n): A person who is shopping.
- The mall was full of shoppers during the sale.
Workshop (n): A room or building where goods are made or repaired. (A close synonym for one meaning of 'shop'.)
- The artist's workshop is full of tools and materials.
- Store (n): A retail establishment selling goods. (Common US synonym for 'shop'.)
- Browse (v): To look at goods in a casual way without an immediate intent to buy.
- Inform on (v): To give incriminating information about someone to an authority. (Synonym for the 'betray' meaning.)
Shop around: To compare prices and quality at different stores before buying.
- It's wise to shop around before buying a new car. (It's wise to compare options.)
Shop for: To go to stores with the intention of finding and buying a particular type of item.
- I need to shop for a birthday present for my sister. (I need to look for a present.)
All over the shop (informal, chiefly British): Scattered everywhere; in a state of disorder.
- After the party, the empty cups were all over the shop. (They were scattered everywhere.)
To come/go to the wrong shop: To ask the wrong person for help or information.
- If you're looking for legal advice, you've come to the wrong shop; I'm a dentist. (You've asked the wrong person.)
- a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity)
- I built a birdhouse in shop
- small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done
- a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
- he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod
- give away information about somebody
- He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam
- shop around; not necessarily buying
- I don't need help, I'm just browsing
- do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
- do one's shopping
- She goes shopping every Friday