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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He was a kind of Italian piece-work man, who made himself useful in the shop.
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.
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.
All were struck with the stranger’s air, all wondered who he could be; and Kitty and Lydia, determined if possible to find out, led the way across the street, under pretence of wanting something in an opposite shop, and fortunately had just gained the pavement, when the two gentlemen, turning back, had reached the same spot.
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