shop
/ʃɑp/ noun A1- An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
- A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
- A large garage where vehicle mechanics work. · The car's in the shop right now.
- Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
- Discussion of business or professional affairs.
- A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skills.
- An establishment where a barber or beautician works. · a barber shop
- An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies. · This is where I do my weekly shop.
Plural shops
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Barnicot’s rooms were the exact duplicates of the one which was destroyed in Morse Hudson’s shop?”
“On the other hand, this Morse Hudson is the purveyor of busts in that part of London, and these three were the only ones which had been in his shop for years.
“In Kennington Road, and within a few hundred yards of Morse Hudson’s shop, there lives a well-known medical practitioner, named Dr.
His next care on leaving the barber’s who had achieved his first metamorphosis was to enter a shop and buy a complete sailor’s suit—a garb, as we all know, very simple, and consisting of white trousers, a striped shirt, and a cap.
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