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shop
[ shop ]
noun
- a retail store, especially a small one.
- a small store or department in a large store selling a specific or select type of goods:
the ski shop at Smith's.
- the workshop of a craftsperson or artisan.
- the workshop of a person who works in a manual trade; place for doing specific, skilled manual work:
a carpenter's shop.
- any factory, office, or business:
Our ad agency is a well-run shop.
- Education.
- a course of instruction in a trade, as carpentry, printing, etc., consisting chiefly of training in the use of its tools and materials.
- a classroom in which such a course is given.
- one's trade, profession, or business as a subject of conversation or preoccupation.
verb (used without object)
- to visit shops and stores for purchasing or examining goods.
- to seek or examine goods, property, etc., offered for sale:
Retail merchants often stock their stores by shopping in New York.
- to seek a bargain, investment, service, etc. (usually followed by for ):
I'm shopping for a safe investment that pays good interest.
verb (used with object)
- to seek or examine goods, property, etc., offered for sale in or by:
She's shopping the shoe stores this afternoon.
- Chiefly British Informal.
- to put into prison; jail.
- to behave treacherously toward; inform on; betray.
- Slang. to try to sell (merchandise or a project) in an attempt to obtain an order or contract.
interjection
- (used in a store, shop, etc., in calling an employee to wait on a customer.)
shop
/ ʃɒ /
noun
- a place, esp a small building, for the retail sale of goods and services
- an act or instance of shopping, esp household shopping
the weekly shop
- a place for the performance of a specified type of work; workshop
- all over the shop informal.
- in disarray
his papers were all over the shop
- in every direction
I've searched for it all over the shop
- shut up shop
- to close business at the end of the day or permanently
- to become defensive or inactive
- talk shopto speak about one's work, esp when meeting socially, sometimes with the effect of excluding those not similarly employed
verb
- introften foll byfor to visit a shop or shops in search of (goods) with the intention of buying them
- slang.tr to inform on or betray, esp to the police
Other 51Թ Forms
- t·DZ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of shop1
Idioms and Phrases
- set up shop, to go into business; begin business operations:
to set up shop as a taxidermist.
- shut up shop,
- to close a business temporarily, as at the end of the day.
- to suspend business operations permanently:
They couldn't make a go of it and had to shut up shop.
- talk shop, to discuss one's trade, profession, or business:
After dinner we all sat around the table and talked shop.
More idioms and phrases containing shop
In addition to the idiom beginning with shop , also see bull in a china shop ; close up (shop) ; set up (shop) ; shut up (shop) ; talk shop .Example Sentences
"I think everyone thought that once Inter went 2-0 up, that would be it – they would shut up shop, and we wouldn't see much other than another outstanding defensive display by them," said Warnock.
There, Max Glassman — known around town as Pierogi Papi — sets up shop on weekends, spinning out dumplings that feel like a dare and a love letter at the same time.
“We want you to bring your family, your kids, your parents, your grandparents, enjoy great music, have amazing food and shop from a lot of these small businesses that are popping up.”
Volunteers at a community shop which offers essential items to struggling families are encouraging people to attend.
A spokesperson confirmed its shops and funeral homes were operating as usual following the attempted hack.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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