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shop /shop/ shop shops /shop/ Etymology: [OE sceoppa a treasury] noun a building or room in which goods are sold or services provided a spell of shopping, esp for food and/or household items a place where mechanics work, or where any kind of industry is pursued, a workshop a place of employment or activity, esp a theatre prison (old slang) shop talk shop shopping shopped shopped shops /shop/ Etymology: [OE sceoppa a treasury] intransitive verb (shoppˈing; shopped) to visit shops, esp for the purpose of buying shop shopping shopped shopped shops /shop/ Etymology: [OE sceoppa a treasury] transitive verb to imprison, or cause to be imprisoned (slang) to betray or inform against (someone) to the police, etc (slang) to give employment to (obsolete) Etymology: [OE sceoppa a treasury] Derivatives: shopaholˈic shopaholic shopaholics noun a compulsive shopper (see -aholic) shopˈful shopful shopfuls noun shoppˈer shopper shoppers noun a person who shops a shopping bag or basket shoppˈing shopping shoppings noun the activity of visiting shops to buy or see goods goods thus bought shopping adjective for shopping shoppˈy shoppy shoppiest shoppier adjective commercial having many shops given to talking shop concerning one's own pursuit Compounds: shop assistant shop assistant noun a person who serves customers in a shop shop bell shop bell noun a bell, fitted to the door of a shop, that rings when the door is opened shopˈboard shopboard noun a counter a bench on which tailors work W shopˈbot shopbot noun (computing) a website used to compare prices for shopping (see bot2) shop boy or shop girl shop boy or shop girl noun esp formerly, a boy or girl employed in a shop shopˈbreaker shopbreaker noun a person who breaks into a shop shopˈbreaking shopbreaking noun shopˈfitter shopfitter noun a person who installs counters, shelves, etc in a shop shopˈfitting shopfitting noun shop floor shop floor noun that part of a factory, etc, housing the production machinery and in which that part of the workforce directly involved with production is employed the people who work on the shop floor, esp those workers organized in a union shopˈ-floor shop-floor adjective shopˈfront shopfront noun the part of a shop, with display windows, etc, that faces onto the street shop-in-shopˈ shop-in-shop adjective (of a supplier of particular goods or services) having a retail outlet within a larger shop or store shopˈkeeper shopkeeper noun a person who keeps a shop of his or her own shopˈkeeping shopkeeping noun shopˈlift shoplift transitive verb and intransitive verb shopˈlifter shoplifter noun shopˈlifting shoplifting noun stealing from a shop shopˈman or shopˈwoman shopman or shopwoman noun a person who serves in a shop a shopkeeper (rare) a person who is employed in a workshop (United States) shopping bag or shopping basket shopping bag or shopping basket noun a receptacle for goods bought shopping-bag lady shopping-bag lady same as bag lady (see under bag). shopping centre shopping centre noun a place where there is a concentration of shops of different kinds shopping list shopping list noun a list of items to be bought a list of items to be obtained, done, acted upon, considered, etc (figurative) shopping mall shopping mall see under mall. shopping precinct shopping precinct see under precinct. shop sign shop sign noun a sign over a shop indicating the occupier's name and trade shopˈsoiled shopsoiled adjective somewhat faded or worn by display in a shop (also figurative) shop steward shop steward noun a representative of the employees of a factory or workshop, elected from their own number shop talk shop talk noun talk about one's own business, esp when carried on outside business hours shop walker shop walker noun a shop employee who walks about in a shop to see that customers are attended to shop window shop window noun a window of a shop in which wares are displayed any means of displaying what is on offer to advantage shopwoman shopwoman see shopman above. shopˈworn shopworn adjective shopsoiled (also figurative) Phrases: all over the shop all over the shop (informal) dispersed all around on the shop floor on the shop floor among the workers in a factory or workshop set up shop set up shop to open a trading establishment to begin operations generally shop around shop around to compare prices and quality of goods at various shops before making a purchase (also figurative) shut up shop shut up shop to close a shop, etc, at the end of a working day, week, etc to close a business permanently talk shop talk shop to talk about one's own work or business the Shop the Shop the former Royal Military Academy at Woolwich the wrong shop the wrong shop (informal) the wrong place to look for eg sympathy or help
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