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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Sherlock Holmes and I walked together to the High Street, where we stopped at the shop of Harding Brothers, whence the bust had been purchased.
The village of Longbourn was only one mile from Meryton; a most convenient distance for the young ladies, who were usually tempted thither three or four times a week, to pay their duty to their aunt, and to a milliner’s shop just over the way.
She was inexpensively clothed in a plain black dress that suggested a sort of uniform such as shop girls wear.
Their eyes were immediately wandering up the street in quest of the officers, and nothing less than a very smart bonnet, indeed, or a really new muslin in a shop window, could recall them.
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