shop
n.
small retail store; studio; workshop, room or building in which skilled manual work is done; business, office; room in a school equipped to train students in the industrial arts
v.
visit a store and purchase goods; browse in a store; inform on, betray (British Slang)
Shop
shop
Noun
1. a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod"
(synonym) store
(hypernym) mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet, outlet
(hyponym) bakery, bakeshop, bakehouse
(part-meronym) shopfront, storefront
(derivation) patronize, patronise, shop at, buy at, frequent, sponsor
2. small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done
(synonym) workshop
(hypernym) workplace, work
(hyponym) bindery
3. a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity); "I built a birdhouse in shop"
(synonym) shop class
(hypernym) course, course of study, course of instruction, class
Verb
1. do one's shopping; "She goes shopping every Friday"
(hypernym) obtain
(hyponym) market
(entail) buy, purchase
(derivation) store
(classification) commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
2. do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
(synonym) patronize, patronise, shop at, buy at, frequent, sponsor
(hypernym) support, back up
(derivation) store
3. shop around; not necessarily buying; "I don't need help, I'm just browsing"
(synonym) browse
(hypernym) search, seek, look for
(hyponym) comparison-shop
(verb-group) browse, surf
(derivation) store
(classification) commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
4. give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"
(synonym) denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, snitch, stag
(hypernym) inform
(hyponym) sell out
Shop
imp. of Shape. Shaped.
(v. i.)
To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
(n.)
A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.
(n.)
A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Shop
Wall Street jargon for a firm.