shop

Plural: shops

Noun

a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
- "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod"
small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done
a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity)
- "I built a birdhouse in shop"
An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
Discussion of business or professional affairs.
A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skills.
An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
The collective items bought (or to be bought) on a shopping trip.

Verb

Verb Forms: shopped, shopping, shops

To visit stores to examine or buy goods.
do one's shopping
- "She goes shopping every Friday"
do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
shop around; not necessarily buying
give away information about somebody
To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.
To browse or purchase products from (a catalog, an internet website, etc.), mostly from home.
To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
To imprison.
To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
To dismiss from employment.
To investigate or evaluate as a mystery shopper.

Intj

Used to attract the services of a shop assistant

Examples

He shopped his mates in to the police.
He would SHOP for words in his mental dictionary, looking for the perfect play on the Scrabble board.
I’ve got a big shop, so feel free to go in front.
Shop our new arrivals.
The car's in the shop right now.
This is where I do my weekly shop.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with Dutch schop (“spade, kick”), German Schuppen (“shed”), German Schober (“barn”), French échoppe (“booth, shop”) (< Germanic). The verb is denominal. The noun senses “act of shopping”, “purchased items” are backformed from the verb.

Synonyms

betray, browse, buy at, denounce, frequent, give away, grass, patronise, patronize, rat, shit, shop at, shop class, snitch, sponsor, stag, store, tell on, workshop, atelier, boutique, carpentry, fire, garage, grass up, machine shop, metal shop, metalwork, office, place of work, retail outlet, retail store, sack, studio, wood shop, woodwork, workplace

Antonyms

boycott

Scrabble Score: 9

shop: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
shop: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
shop: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

shop: valid Words With Friends Word