shop
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shop/ʃɒp/
▶noun
- 1 a building or part of a building where goods or services are sold.
■ an act of going shopping.
- 2 a place where things are manufactured or repaired; a workshop.
- 1 go to a shop or shops to buy goods.
■ (shop around) look for the best available price or rate for something.
- 2 Brit. informal inform on (someone).
– phrases
talk shop discuss matters concerning one's work, especially on an inappropriate occasion.
talk shop discuss matters concerning one's work, especially on an inappropriate occasion.
– origin ME: shortening of OFr. eschoppe ‘lean-to booth’.
'shop' also found in these Oxford entries:
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- awning
- bar
- barbershop
- blind
- bodega
- body shop
- boutique
- bucket shop
- bull
- butcher
- butt
- cafeteria
- canteen
- cantina
- cash desk
- cashier
- charcuterie
- chemist
- chipper
- chippy
- cleaner
- clerk
- clientele
- closed shop
- convenience store
- cookshop
- cop shop
- corner shop
- counter
- custom
- customer
- delicatessen
- department store
- destock
- dime store
- discount store
- display case
- dump bin
- factory shop
- false friend
- father of the chapel
- fishmonger
- fitting room
- fitting shop
- five-and-dime
- float
- floor manager
- footfall
- gaff
