- nounshop (noun) · shops (plural noun)
- a building or part of a building where goods or services are sold; a store:"a card shop" · "a barber shop"
- BRITISH ENGLISHinformalan act of going shopping:"she slogged her way around the supermarket doing the weekly shop"
- a place where things are manufactured or repaired; a workshop:"an auto repair shop"
- a room or department in a factory where a particular stage of production is carried out:"the machine shop"
- short for shop class."I got an A in shop last year"
verbshop (verb) · shops (third person present) · shopped (past tense) · shopped (past participle) · shopping (present participle)- visit one or more stores or websites to buy goods:"she shopped for groceries twice a week" · "don't buy a plastic carrier bag every time you go shopping" · "sometimes it's more convenient to shop online" · "take a trip to downtown San Diego to shop the upscale stores of Horton Plaza"
- (shop around)look for the best available price or rate for something:"they shopped around for cheaper food"
- BRITISH ENGLISHinformalinform on (someone):"a concerned member of the public had shopped him—wrongly—for accepting monetary reward"
- informalalter (a photographic image) digitally using Photoshop image-editing software:"saying this picture was shopped was the way her lawyers attempted damage control"
OriginMiddle English: 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.Similar and Opposite Wordsnounverb- visit one or more stores or websites to buy goods:
- inform on (someone):
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