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noun

Shop n.

1.

A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail. "From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The polished counter."

2.

A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop. "A tailor called me in his shop."

3.

A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; sometimes in deprecation or disapproval; as, to talk shop at a party. Also used attributively, as in shop talk.

4.

A place where any industry is carried on; as, a chemist's shop; also, (Slang), Any of the various places of business which are commonly called offices, as of a lawyer, doctor, broker, etc.

5.

Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc. (Slang, Chiefly Eng.)

6.

The group of workers and the activities controlled by an administrator; as, to have five people in one's shop. (Colloq.) Note: Shop is often used adjectively or in composition; as, shop rent, or shop-rent; shop thief, or shop-thief; shop window, or shop-window, etc.

To smell of the shop, to indicate too distinctively one's occupation or profession.

To talk shop, to make one's business the topic of social conversation; also, to use the phrases peculiar to one's employment. (Colloq.)

Synonyms: Store; warehouse. See Store.

verb

Shop v. i. (past & past part. shopped; pres. part. shopping) To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods. "He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping."

Shop v. obs. Imp. of Shape. Shaped.

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Etymology of 'Shop'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shop" Quotes from Famous Books

... with Edward, Earl of Oxford, to view these MSS. at a barber's shop next door to the Bull Head Tavern, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, when we were carried up two pair of stairs, and an old woman asked 300 pounds for the MSS., which was thought exorbitant, but which would have been given, if she would have declared ...

— Studies from Court and Cloister • J.M. Stone

... tie. But great thought is given to seeing that a girl looks well in her white dress, and other nice new things. She thinks and talks of nothing but her clothes for ever so long before, and especially of her "corsets," which she then puts on for the first time. Her mother takes her to the shop to try them on, and is at much pains to make her waist as slender as possible. "Can't you pull them a little tighter?" she will say to the shopwoman. The girl has tight new shoes to make her feet look ...

— Peeps At Many Lands: Belgium • George W. T. Omond

... then something give me a pause, as they say. Chet showed up one evening with his nails all manicured; yes, sir, polished till you needed smoked glasses to look at 'em. I knew all right where he'd been. I may as well tell you that Henry Lehman was giving Red Gap a flash of form with his new barber shop—tiled floor, plate-glass front, exposed plumbing, and a manicure girl from Seattle; yes, sir, just like in the great wicked cities. It had already turned some of our very best homes into domestic hells, ...

— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

... very like her subsequently kept a milliner's shop in the Rue du Helder at Paris, where she lived with great credit and enjoyed the patronage of my Lord Steyne. This person always spoke of England as of the most treacherous country in the world, and stated to her young pupils that she had been ...

— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray

... characters, from ambassadors and princes to pickpockets and beggars, all brought together by the coronation of the queen, which takes place in a few days (the 28th of June). Everything in London now is colored by the coming pageant. In the shop windows are the robes of the nobility, the crimson and ermine dresses, coronets, etc. Preparations for illuminations are making ...

— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume II • Samuel F. B. Morse

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