shop
/ʃɑp/ verb B1- To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise. · He’s (gone) shopping for clothes.
- To browse or purchase products from (a catalog, an internet website, etc.), mostly from home. · Shop our new arrivals.
- To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
- To investigate or evaluate as a mystery shopper.
- To pitch (a book, script, etc.) to a publisher or studio.
He/she/it shops · Past shopped · Past participle shopped · -ing form shopping
Verb forms
- Base form
- shop
- He/she/it
- shops
- Past
- shopped
- Past participle
- shopped
- -ing form
- shopping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Well, that’s all we could reasonably expect from Morse Hudson,” said Holmes, as we emerged from the shop.
He was a kind of Italian piece-work man, who made himself useful in the shop.
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.
“In Kennington Road, and within a few hundred yards of Morse Hudson’s shop, there lives a well-known medical practitioner, named Dr.
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