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Meaning of shop in English
Pronunciation
/ʃɑp/
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Verb
shop
Definitions
1.
do one's shopping
Examples
« She goes shopping every Friday »
2.
do one's shopping at
Examples
« do business with »
« be a customer or client of »
Antonyms
boycott
boycott
3.
shop around
Examples
« not necessarily buying »
« I don't need help, I'm just browsing »
4.
give away information about somebody
Examples
« He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam »
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 »
2.
small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done
3.
a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity)
Examples
« I built a birdhouse in shop »