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shop
[ shop ]
noun
- a retail store, especially a small one.
- a small store or department in a large store selling a specific or select type of goods:
the ski shop at Smith's.
- the workshop of a craftsperson or artisan.
- the workshop of a person who works in a manual trade; place for doing specific, skilled manual work:
a carpenter's shop.
- any factory, office, or business:
Our ad agency is a well-run shop.
- Education.
- a course of instruction in a trade, as carpentry, printing, etc., consisting chiefly of training in the use of its tools and materials.
- a classroom in which such a course is given.
- one's trade, profession, or business as a subject of conversation or preoccupation.
verb (used without object)
- to visit shops and stores for purchasing or examining goods.
- to seek or examine goods, property, etc., offered for sale:
Retail merchants often stock their stores by shopping in New York.
- to seek a bargain, investment, service, etc. (usually followed by for ):
I'm shopping for a safe investment that pays good interest.
verb (used with object)
- to seek or examine goods, property, etc., offered for sale in or by:
She's shopping the shoe stores this afternoon.
- Chiefly British Informal.
- to put into prison; jail.
- to behave treacherously toward; inform on; betray.
- Slang. to try to sell (merchandise or a project) in an attempt to obtain an order or contract.
interjection
- (used in a store, shop, etc., in calling an employee to wait on a customer.)
shop
/ 蕛蓲辫 /
noun
- a place, esp a small building, for the retail sale of goods and services
- an act or instance of shopping, esp household shopping
the weekly shop
- a place for the performance of a specified type of work; workshop
- all over the shop informal.
- in disarray
his papers were all over the shop
- in every direction
I've searched for it all over the shop
- shut up shop
- to close business at the end of the day or permanently
- to become defensive or inactive
- talk shopto speak about one's work, esp when meeting socially, sometimes with the effect of excluding those not similarly employed
verb
- introften foll byfor to visit a shop or shops in search of (goods) with the intention of buying them
- slang.tr to inform on or betray, esp to the police
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 颈苍顎僼别谤路蝉丑辞辫顎 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of shop1
Idioms and Phrases
- set up shop, to go into business; begin business operations:
to set up shop as a taxidermist.
- shut up shop,
- to close a business temporarily, as at the end of the day.
- to suspend business operations permanently:
They couldn't make a go of it and had to shut up shop.
- talk shop, to discuss one's trade, profession, or business:
After dinner we all sat around the table and talked shop.
More idioms and phrases containing shop
In addition to the idiom beginning with shop , also see bull in a china shop ; close up (shop) ; set up (shop) ; shut up (shop) ; talk shop .Example Sentences
The singer, from Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow, launched her new album and a European tour with a fashionable pop-up gig in Glasgow's Princes Square shopping centre.
Andy Hacking, 61, said he bought the RAF uniform about five years ago in a shop in Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester, and discovered the letter in a pocket with a post mark dated 17 December 1945.
In internal documents, Google said it intends to develop Chrome into an 鈥渁gentic browser,鈥 which incorporates AI agents to automate tasks and perform actions such as filling out forms, conducting research or shopping.
鈥淚 know T&T may not be well-known in Irvine, but we are excited to surprise our shoppers with a unique shopping experience.鈥
She was standing behind the counter of her tobacconist shop in Borgo Pio, a quiet cobblestoned street lined with buildings in earthy tones and flower boxes near the Vatican.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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