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Meaning of shop in English

  1. Pronunciation

    /ʃɑp/

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  1. Verb

    shop

    Definitions

    1. do one's shopping

    Examples

    • « She goes shopping every Friday »
  2. 2. do one's shopping at

    Examples

    • « do business with »
    • « be a customer or client of »

    Antonyms

    • boycott
    • boycott
  3. 3. shop around

    Examples

    • « not necessarily buying »
    • « I don't need help, I'm just browsing »
  4. 4. give away information about somebody

    Examples

    • « He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam »
  5. Noun

    shop

    Etymology

    Middle English: shortening of Old French eschoppe‘lean-to booth’, of West Germanic origin; related to German Schopf‘porch’ and English dialect shippon ‘cattle shed’. The verb is first recorded (mid 16th century) in the sense ‘imprison’ (from an obsolete slang use of the noun for ‘prison’), hence shop (sense 2 of the verb)

    Definitions

    1. a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services

    Examples

    • « he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod »
  6. 2. small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done
  7. 3. a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity)

    Examples

    • « I built a birdhouse in shop »

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