Definitions for shop

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Spelling: [shop]

IPA: /ʃɒp/

Shop is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in shop (hops).

Definitions for shop

noun

1. a retail store, especially a small one.
2. a small store or department in a large store selling a specific or select type of goods:
3. the workshop of a craftsperson or artisan.
4. the workshop of a person who works in a manual trade; place for doing specific, skilled manual work:
5. any factory, office, or business:
6. 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.
7. one's trade, profession, or business as a subject of conversation or preoccupation.

Idioms

1. set up shop, to go into business; begin business operations:
2. shut up shop, to close a business temporarily, as at the end of the day. to suspend business operations permanently:
3. talk shop, to discuss one's trade, profession, or business:

interjection

1. (used in a store, shop, etc., in calling an employee to wait on a customer.)

verb (used with object)

1. to seek or examine goods, property, etc., offered for sale in or by:
2. Chiefly British Informal. to put into prison; jail. to behave treacherously toward; inform on; betray.
3. Slang. to try to sell (merchandise or a project) in an attempt to obtain an order or contract.

verb (used without object)

1. to visit shops and stores for purchasing or examining goods.
2. to seek or examine goods, property, etc., offered for sale:
3. to seek a bargain, investment, service, etc. (usually followed by for):

Origin of shop

1250-1300; Middle English shoppe (noun), Old English sceoppa booth; akin to scypen stall, shippon, German Schopf lean-to, Schuppen shed

Examples for shop

With this sophisticated tone set, the shop opened and developed a clientele.

Macdonald, however, was not a man to be put down in his own shop and before his own admirers.

It is Ana, the daughter of Manuel, who works in the smith's shop.

The rapid rise of the sharing economy is changing the way people around the world commute, shop, vacation, and borrow.

The shop was built of rough boards, and the inside was blackened with soot.

Finding the shop is a trip in itself and an introduction to a slice of history.

In June the florist's shop is a poor place, sedulously to be shunned.

Because the shop was emblematic of that peculiar Italian institution known as La Faccia: i.e. presenting the best face possible.

I suspect [Teresa] will get money sent in to her, so she can shop at the commissary.

I saw her in Carlton's, that new confectioner's shop on Main Street.