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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shop
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bicycle shop (also bicycle store American English)
▪ His dream was to own a bicycle shop.
a book shop (also book store American English)
▪ I got it from that little book shop in the village.
a cake shop
▪ There's a very good cake shop in the market.
a charity shop (=one that gives the money it makes to a charity)
▪ Give your old clothes to a charity shop.
a craft shop (=selling things made by craftsmen or women)
a discount store/shop (=selling things more cheaply than other shops)
▪ There's a lot of competition from large discount stores.
a dress shop (=selling women’s dresses and other clothes)
▪ It was an expensive dress shop.
a fashion shop
▪ We walked around Milan’s famous fashion shops.
a fish shop
▪ She works in the fish shop on the High Street.
a flower shop
▪ He used to run a flower shop.
a gift shop
▪ The gift shop was well stocked with souvenirs.
a pet shop
▪ Your local pet shop will have a variety of different collars.
a repair shop/yard (=a place where things of a particular kind are repaired)
▪ He works in a shoe repair shop.
a shoe shopBritish English, a shoe store American English
a shopping bag
▪ She loaded her shopping bags into the back of the car.
a shopping basket
▪ She paid for the apples and put them in her shopping basket.
a shopping centre
▪ They are building a huge new shopping centre just outside the town.
a shopping complex
▪ Some old buildings were pulled down to make space for a new shopping complex.
a shopping district
▪ The bomb exploded in a crowded shopping district.
a shopping expedition (=when you go shopping)
▪ I took Mary and the kids on a shopping expedition into Manchester.
a shopping list (=a list of things you want to buy)
▪ a Christmas shopping list
a shopping streetBritish English (= with a lot of shops)
▪ This is one of Europe’s most elegant shopping streets.
a shopping/fishing/skiing etc trip
▪ He was knocked off his bicycle on his way home from a shopping trip.
a shop/store window
▪ She looked in shop windows.
an exclusive shop (also an exclusive store American English)
▪ I walked along Bond Street, past all the exclusive shops.
antique shop
▪ They bought the clock at an antique shop in Bath.
betting shop
body shop
bucket shop
charity shop
chip shop
Christmas shopping (=for presents for people)
▪ Have you done your Christmas shopping yet?
closed shop
coffee shop
consignment shop
cop shop
corner shop
do the shopping/cleaning/ironing/cooking etc
▪ Who does the cooking in your family?
gift shop
go shopping/swimming/skiing etc
▪ I need to go shopping this afternoon.
high street banks/shops/stores etc
Internet shopping/banking
▪ The new regulations will increase customer confidence in Internet shopping.
▪ Internet banking saves customers a lot of time.
junk shop
machine shop
paper shop
retail outlet/shop/store/chain
▪ We are looking for more retail outlets for our products.
secondhand store/shop etc (=a shop that sells second-hand things)
sex shop
shop assistant
shop floor
▪ The chairwoman started her working life on the shop floor.
shop front
shop steward
shop talk
shopping bag
shopping basket
shopping cart
shopping centre
shopping list
shopping mall
▪ a huge new shopping mall
shopping mall
shopping precinct
shopping spree
▪ a shopping spree
shopping trolley
souvenir shop
▪ a souvenir shop
talking shop
tea shop
the village hall/school/shop/church
▪ A meeting will be held at the village hall on Tuesday.
thrift shop
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
antique
▪ First I had to pass the antique shop where Mr Rutherford resided.
▪ I just want to look into that antique shop.
▪ Mr Barker had intended to sell the goods in the antique shop he runs with his wife.
▪ There were almost more antique and second-hand shops in some of those villages than there were houses.
▪ The atmosphere is that of a village with antique shops, delightful pubs, tea shops and bistros.
▪ Her Sloane Street shop was between an antique shop and a florist's.
▪ They rely on buying their sickles from antique shops and jumble sales.
▪ They both love browsing in antique shops wherever they happen to be visiting, and appreciate good quality modern and reproduction designs.
betting
▪ The compact circuit, purpose-built with the betting shop service in mind, has surprised owners Ladbrokes with its robust evening trade.
▪ Once I'd scrawled for a betting shop on Priory Hill.
▪ Most of the Powis Square mob frequented a particular betting shop where their noisy ways were tolerated.
▪ The many village shops have closed and reopened as video or betting shops, or estate agents.
▪ I hit the betting shop and lose dough perched on a stool.
▪ Bookmakers say they should handle the betting tax rebate as the money comes from their betting shops.
▪ The offence in s.3 will not be committed by an accused who walks away from a betting shop or brothel.
closed
▪ This was not so easy at that time as the crewing arrangements were very much of a closed shop.
▪ It was the last closed shop in Britain, he said, and it had to go.
▪ The closed shop: Mr Fowler said the legislation would guarantee people the freedom to decide whether or not to join a union.
▪ The production unions' success had various causes, including an effective closed shop and weak newspaper managements.
▪ Therefore, your club must not be a closed shop.
▪ The closed shop and the wildcat strike have undermined the legitimacy of modern trade unionism.
▪ Their purpose was to weaken the closed shop and to outlaw secondary picketing.
▪ Only one firm in two now bargains with unions, compared with two-thirds then. Closed shops have been outlawed.
local
▪ Nomatterwhat help or advice you need, call in or phone your local shop.
▪ Admission is $ 4, with a $ 1 discount coupon available at local camera shops.
▪ Between a small, local shop where there is likely to be less security, and a large supermarket or department store?
▪ But Garcia said the 26 or 28 weapons confiscated were purchased in local gun shops and registered in his name.
▪ You should browse in your local art shop.
▪ Competition rules and regulations available from your Local Radio Rentals shop.
▪ Your local pet shop is likely to have a variety of different collars available.
▪ My local art shop had no idea and none of the books I have read so far give any advice.
pet
▪ She was uneasy about going to the pet shop.
▪ Packets are available at gyms, athletic stores and pet shops throughout Tucson, or by calling 647-7572.
▪ This is sold, alongside Omega cat food, through specialist outlets such as pet shops, garden centres and agricultural merchants.
▪ We went to three pet shops before we found a pair of gray Brussels griffons.
▪ Suitable designs which clip together are available especially from larger pet shops.
▪ Frozen adult brine shrimp have been on the market for quite some time and are available through almost any pet shop.
▪ Your local pet shop is likely to have a variety of different collars available.
▪ You can obtain suitable tablets for this from your vet and most pet shops.
retail
▪ A paved plaza at the Third Street entrance, near on-campus retail shops.
▪ Here there are famous department stores, fashion shops, retail shops with high quality goods, confectioners and pavement cafes.
▪ The third opportunity is offered by Cristina, a Brasov businesswoman with her own workshop and retail shop.
▪ A good third of the stock of any hardware retail shop in Nairobi is now derived from this source.
▪ The main delivery journeys to the retail shops had all been done by Fridays.
▪ The plan calls for a three-story, 42-unit apartment complex that would also include retail shops.
toy
▪ The toy shop was one huge playroom where everything was owned in common.
▪ They sell them in the toy shop down the road.
▪ They escaped from the toy shop, and went to live in the market building, in the middle of the square.
▪ The scissors have stainless steel blades and retail at £1.99 in department stores and toy shops.
▪ I was like a kid in a toy shop.
▪ She craved cuddles and kisses; she was given a catalogue from Hamley's toy shop.
■ NOUN
assistant
▪ She found she was short-tempered with shop assistants, angry if something she had ordered failed to arrive on the appointed date.
▪ She remembered his tetchiness with shop assistants, which presumably had been simulated.
▪ The expression of the shop assistant was making her most uncomfortable.
▪ Dress shop assistants grow supercilious, aware that they can uplift or slay us with a single comment.
▪ He stabbed the shop assistant at least six times with a knife.
▪ The shop assistant watched them curiously from behind the old-fashioned mahogany counter; you never knew what to make of these foreigners.
charity
▪ Clothes and bric-a-brac have been pouring into the hospice's charity shops in response to an appeal for more goods.
▪ Members of the town's hospice movement say trade has fallen dramatically at their charity shop.
▪ All the outfits on the catwalk were made up from clothes donated to its charity shops.
▪ One sign: when Seattle started to charge citizens by the bagful, charity shops found their doorsteps knee-deep in unwanted gifts.
▪ When family charity fails to clothe you, try a charity shop.
▪ For the last year, charity shops have had to cut back the number of toys they sell drastically because of new legislation.
▪ But for a sudden, necessary purchase, it is worth scouring the charity shops at any season.
chip
▪ It was half a mile to the chip shop, so you had to get a head start.
▪ Enroute to the Blood Kit, the chip shop even sold pineapple rings.
▪ The nearest centre with camping, chip shops, pubs etc is St Just, five miles south down the B3306.
▪ The violence began outside a chip shop when rival gangs clashed.
▪ Or is Mary's a chip shop?
▪ It seemed inevitable after this that he should take himself to the nearest fish and chip shop to eat his supper.
▪ The worst pollution is at sites near outlets from industrial potato washing units and fish and chip shops.
▪ More than once I had gone down to the phone outside the chip shop at Annick Water.
coffee
▪ I was working in a coffee shop not far from here.
▪ It has sprouted shopping malls, discos and nightclubs, beauty salons, gymnasia, news kiosks, coffee shops.
▪ Finally the two women refused to fill out any more grant applications with him in coffee shops and on the street.
▪ I went into the Cookery coffee shop.
▪ She wants to open a coffee shop next door.
corner
▪ At 5 or 6 years ò Trust them to go to the corner shop to buy milk or a paper.
▪ Proactive job search Perhaps as a child you were sent with a list to the corner shop.
▪ In Burnley Wood, a mob of white youths surrounded Amit Stores, a corner shop near the working men's club.
▪ The residents go to the pub, the local corner shop, the club and they go and play bingo.
▪ Tucker's was a corner shop on Hoomey's way home.
▪ Here he is with his hands full after a buying spree in a corner shop.
▪ Small corner shops shut as she approached them.
▪ Willie recognized Mr Miller from the corner shop and the young man behind the mesh in the Post Office.
floor
▪ I believe any young graduate would get an awful lot of value from working with people on the shop floor.
▪ Traditional craft know-how was being reduced to scientific data and passing from workman to manager, from shop floor to front office.
▪ Willis described the elements of the culture of the shop floor as being hinged around the execution of hard work.
▪ Of course, we also provide practical project management training from the shop floor up.
▪ They were, in fact, star workers whose performance on the shop floor was being rewarded with a weekend in paradise.
▪ Staff working in the office, on the shop floor and in the warehouse may well communicate via the internal telephone system.
▪ On the shop floor Sometimes goods are delivered direct to the shop floor without having been priced.
▪ The 3 expert systems then developed have remained in use on the shop floor since the end of the trial.
front
▪ In the courtyard of the family home, on the road and in shop fronts, people chatted, smoked, gossiped.
▪ The stalls had disappeared, the shop fronts were boarded up.
▪ A freshly painted shop front with shining glass and a window full of bottles.
▪ The streets were jammed tight with narrow shop fronts and grimy cafés.
▪ Attracting 600,000 visitors a year, the village is littered with ugly shop fronts and tacky signs.
▪ Across the streets whole shop fronts lay in a mangled mess.
▪ Paint was peeling from the shop fronts, some premises were derelict.
gift
▪ Shops A gift shop and children's shop are situated just off the main car park.
▪ Springer says the exhibition area will not include a museum, theater or gift shop.
▪ There also is a gift shop and restaurant.
▪ Aviary, children's play area, gift shop and tea rooms.
▪ Sunday morning, Rice was in a hotel gift shop.
▪ Refreshment facilities, restaurant, picnic areas and gift shop.
▪ Tickets are $ 10, available at the Flandrau gift shop.
junk
▪ I'd carried it back from a local junk shop.
▪ Liverpool gets scruffier every day, with junk shops springing up all over.
▪ Old deal or pine kitchen chairs can be picked up reasonably in junk shops and painted or stained.
▪ Doyle was just climbing out of the shattered window of the junk shop.
▪ So Rita scoured junk shops for second-hand pieces to fill the rooms.
▪ Recently I opened a cupboard in a junk shop and there, sure enough, was a skeleton, swinging.
▪ Careful searching through old junk shops and around antique markets may well produce endless ideas and inspiration from which you can work.
▪ Explore junk shops and markets for costume pearls and earrings to recreate this expensive look.
machine
▪ Jan Fischer produced a transporter that might well have come from a professional machine shop.
▪ Soon the machine shop was running on two shifts, day and night.
▪ But the quickest way to the foundry is through the machine shop, especially in this weather.
▪ It was the elder Gough who founded the Marin Weightlifting Club and relocated it to the vacant machine shop in 1990.
▪ The machine shop was an enormous shed with machines and work benches laid out in a grid pattern.
▪ The machine shop left hundreds of thousands of men with shared memories: The whirring and flapping of the belts.
▪ At the time, George Jennings was running a machine shop.
▪ But give labor anything it wants, even a lousy ten-man machine shop, and every drop of it is blood.
shoe
▪ Next door was a shoe shop.
▪ The shoe shop next door is bought out by a firm of metal welders.
▪ My husband works in a shoe shop.
▪ I am sad to see that one of my favourite landmarks, R. Soles the shoe shop, has closed down.
▪ Their father had a large shoe shop in the town.
▪ I was out with my children when we passed a shoe shop with some wellington boots outside.
▪ Dekko Moore was a cousin of Paccy Moore's in the shoe shop.
▪ He never thought I was fit to run a shoe shop.
souvenir
▪ The first objective is the provision of a new souvenir shop, refreshment room and booking office.
▪ The streets around the Plaza are filled with boutiques, galleries, restaurants and souvenir shops.
▪ For those last minute Mickey Mouse presents for home there is also a mini-market and souvenir shop.
▪ Several small restaurants at the swimming area serve full meals and cold beer. Souvenir shops abound.
▪ Gift and Book Shop A packed souvenir shop full of interesting and unusual gifts and informative and entertaining books.
▪ The extension would provide space for offices, cloakrooms, a souvenir shop and bookshop, the library and temporary exhibitions.
▪ I found myself in a smart town square surrounded by glittering bars, hotels and souvenir shops.
▪ There is also a shire horse souvenir shop.
steward
▪ He says that shop stewards will want to talk to managment again.
▪ Not long ago, I was in a nasty argument with a shop steward.
▪ The exchange is purely ritual in function, authorizing Bert Braddock to reassure anxious shop stewards if they start asking awkward questions.
▪ Remember, this is an election for shop steward.
▪ Problems faced by part-time women shop stewards were researched by this same group of men.
▪ Although shop stewards held a meeting yesterday, union organisers had not been informed officially of the authority's move.
▪ The hon. Gentleman will be aware that I have discussed the frigate orders with the shop stewards.
tea
▪ The tea shop was next door to one of Sara's branches.
▪ I sat in a tea shop.
▪ The atmosphere is that of a village with antique shops, delightful pubs, tea shops and bistros.
▪ I went into a tea shop and ordered a pot of tea and a little cake in fluted white paper.
▪ Since the 1930s, it has served as both a tea shop and now a restaurant.
▪ And this tea shop closed its doors and sent the staff home.
▪ I would bike to the tea shop in the High Street and see what blends they had.
village
▪ Once they talked of it in the village shop, the whole village would know by nightfall.
▪ DivaIi, the festival of lights, would soon be upon us and the village shops were stocked up with fireworks.
▪ Village information scheme for Exmoor Exmoor National Park has decided to set up information agencies in selected village shops.
▪ There was the pretty girl from the village shop wearing an emerald-green dress more suited to a wedding.
▪ Everyone was hungry, but there was no food to be had for it had floated out of the village shop and away.
▪ Now she had pulled up outside the village shop and was yelling to them to bring her out an ice-cream.
▪ The many village shops have closed and reopened as video or betting shops, or estate agents.
▪ Probably she went into the Fir Tree or the village shop to get change for those calls.
window
▪ I will never forget, the shop windows were dressed beautifully with mauve velvet.
▪ A priced article in a shop window is not an offer, simply an invitation to negotiate.
▪ Again they were foiled - this time by a security cage lining the shop window.
▪ Alison Edwards suffered three deep cuts in her face when she accidentally fell through a shop window.
▪ The lighted shop windows threw a bleak illumination on to the empty pavements.
▪ The display in the shop window was an extravagant scenario designed to showcase a monster train set.
▪ One or two of the shop windows nearby were lacking glass, while others had a white star painted on them.
■ VERB
buy
▪ Flour is ground at the mill and can be bought form the mill shop.
▪ Within a short time his business became so successful he bought the shop where he had worked without pay.
▪ I made my way back to Chelsea only too aware that I had no intention of buying a shop in the terrace.
▪ He renovated the place and made it so successful that he also bought the second shop where he had worked!
▪ While these miners are working they buy in the shops and that keeps others in work.
▪ Finally the Ashleys decided to combat the problem of non-paying wholesale customers by themselves buying a London shop.
▪ He and his wife Joy bought a small antique shop in nearby Chipping Norton.
close
▪ Mr Evans closed the shop for an extra half hour and brought out a bottle of sherry.
▪ And retailers, caught betwixt the two, were perplexed and losing money, if not closing up shop for good.
▪ Arthur Davidson has closed his London antique shop of that name under pressure of mounting debt.
▪ Ezra hurried by the closed shops toward the river; back along Canal Street to the Hotel Rehoboth.
▪ At lunch-time she closed the shop for an hour or longer, and shut up at five-thirty.
▪ It was at ten minutes to nine when she decided to close up the shop.
▪ Surely they must be about to close the bomb shop down.
open
▪ He is thinking of opening a small shop.
▪ He opens a surfer shop in Ames, Iowa, right down the street from the tractor repair shop.
▪ The company had opened a record fifteen shops in 1978 bringing its total to over seventy outlets worldwide.
▪ He had just bought a sewing machine in Warsaw and he intended to open his own shop in their small town.
▪ Shortly after opening their shop in 1986, Beth was told that she had cancer.
▪ He opened a flower shop but spends most of his time working as a delivery boy.
▪ Cop shop: Police have opened their own cop shop at Darlington police station to sell personal attack alarms and security devices.
▪ She wants to open a coffee shop next door.
run
▪ Have you noticed how every bookstore seems to run a coffee shop?
▪ Mary Lowther, a fruiterer who runs a shop in Skinnergate.
▪ Probably running a repair shop by now Or somebody's fleet.
▪ His wife still runs a sweet shop in Buckinghamshire.
▪ A third brother, Ben, runs the farm shop.
▪ Miss Asher also runs her own cake shop, which she opened three years ago in Chelsea.
▪ One ran a cooked-meat shop and dining-room; another specialized in funeral teas.
sell
▪ The trendy logos mean they can sell in shops for up to £50 apiece; but looks can be deceptive.
▪ They can press up their own records and sell them through local shops and radio.
▪ What they did not need, they sold to the shops and markets for resale to the public.
▪ He sold the shop, of which he was the owner by then, and moved into ffeatherstonehaugh's as a resident.
▪ He had carved figures which sold in the shops in Salzburg, but he had never set foot on a farm.
set
▪ Early registration figures are also said to be disappointing for the banks and building societies which have set up share shops.
▪ NxtWave opted not to set up shop in Silicon Valley and instead chose Langhorne.
▪ She set up the shop in 1990 with the intention of selling yarn, patterns and accessories.
▪ Caffino is also in the process of getting city permits to set up shop in suburban areas of Boston and Chicago.
▪ It recently undertook such a project for a major oil company which was setting up shop in Moscow.
▪ Wade Smith was given salesman of the year in January and promptly left to set up shop on his own.
▪ The Barrio Grill originally set up shop just over a year ago.
shut
▪ It's not like being on shore where once the patients are gone you shut up shop and go home.
▪ But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession, traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes.
▪ Keith Rodwell, Ipswich Witches' commercial manager, shuts up shop after last night's match with Wolverhampton was rained off.
▪ Time to shut up shop and get to know each other again.
▪ We might just as well shut up shop.
▪ They need ways of shutting up shop, or at least of enduring, when conditions are simply impossible.
▪ I think we should shut up shop, if you don't mind.
visit
▪ It's been a pleasure visiting your shop.
▪ Near Medicine Bow, Wyoming, I visited a rock shop made entirely of fossilized dinosaur bones.
▪ But we never visit her shop and she knows why.
▪ As a young boy, he visited the shop most Fridays and helped serve customers.
▪ In addition to car boot sales, officers had visited shops selling tobacco and drink.
▪ Bunting had visited the shop 24 hours earlier.
▪ Yesterday Charles visited a ginseng shop in the trading district of Nam Pak Hong.
▪ Two thirds of those questioned said that they would visit a betting shop in the evening.
work
▪ They work in shops, offices, building societies and banks.
▪ He was working in an upholstery shop when a wrestler came in to get a leather mask repaired.
▪ My husband works in a shoe shop.
▪ I worked in shops back home where I was manager.
▪ Tony did not want to work in a shop or a factory.
▪ Everybody working in the shop must know how to cook.
▪ What about working in a shop?
▪ She worked in a shop selling chocolates.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
close up shop
▪ Finnegan's Bar is closing up shop after 35 years.
▪ Some of the big ad agencies close up shop early for the holidays.
▪ A few companies closed up shop in California.
▪ And retailers, caught betwixt the two, were perplexed and losing money, if not closing up shop for good.
▪ At one stage, he considered closing up shop for good.
factory girl/shop girl/office girl
go down the shops/club/park etc
▪ We went down the shops on Saturdays.
hit the shops/streets
▪ But after the officer leaves, Michael grabs his sleeping bag and hits the streets.
▪ Equipped with such information, I decided it was time to hit the streets.
▪ Laid-off workers are hitting the streets.
▪ Meanwhile, his book, Black Coffee Blues, is due to hit the shops in mid-December.
▪ She told me to hit the streets with the canvas bag and start ringing doorbells the instant school was out next day.
▪ The newspaper has had $ 29 million in losses since it hit the streets on Jan. 10, 1994.
▪ The service is currently in beta testing and should hit the streets in the first quarter of next year.
▪ When the idea hit the streets, we at Guitarist were unanimous in wanting to throw our weight behind the project.
like a bull in a china shop
▪ Politically, he often behaved like a bull in a china shop.
▪ You're not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop again?
mind the shop
▪ Carrie had been minding the shop.
▪ Emily and Maudie can mind the shop quite well without me, so I can look after Josh and the boys.
▪ I have to mind the shop here.
mobile library/shop/clinic etc
▪ A mobile library visits once a fortnight.
▪ A ferocious sandstorm overturned a mobile library.
▪ A tent will not be a building, nor will a phone kiosk or a mobile shop.
▪ In some remoter villages mobile shops play an important role, but these rarely create jobs in these villages themselves.
▪ The dry cleaner delivers, mobile clinics come to you.
▪ We have a mobile clinic for them with eight centres. 1 want to start a colony for them.
one-stop shop/store etc
▪ Intuit is now aiming to become a one-stop shopping source for anyone looking to do home banking.
▪ Once combined, the companies hope to provide one-stop shopping-all of their services to customers on one bill.
▪ The attraction to consumers, Schneider said, would be one-stop shopping and possibly extra services.
▪ The companies' will explore ways to provide one-stop shopping for utilities that want to automate many of their business functions.
▪ The opening would give many franchisers their first permanent showrooms and allow for one-stop shopping by potential franchisees.
▪ Their goal is to become the one-stop shopping mall of cyberspace.
shut up shop
▪ But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession, traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes.
▪ I think we should shut up shop, if you don't mind.
▪ It's not like being on shore where once the patients are gone you shut up shop and go home.
▪ Keith Rodwell, Ipswich Witches' commercial manager, shuts up shop after last night's match with Wolverhampton was rained off.
▪ They need ways of shutting up shop, or at least of enduring, when conditions are simply impossible.
▪ Time to shut up shop and get to know each other again.
▪ We might just as well shut up shop.
talk shop
▪ And remember that everyone of it is of your own kind, some one with whom you can talk shop.
▪ Andy the Mouse got pretty manic and spent half an hour talking shop with a Mickey.
▪ At the moment the annual summit is little more than an expensive talking shop.
▪ The Commonwealth is simply a talking shop.
▪ This would enable a tough general manager to ensure that medical audit did not become simply a talk shop or token activity.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a card shop
▪ a new health food shop
▪ After assembly, the cars go to the paint shop to be painted.
▪ Could you run down to the shop and get me some cigarettes?
▪ I asked in my local record shop but they couldn't help me.
▪ I got it from the secondhand furniture shop.
▪ Our car's still in the shop.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All that thrives are thrift shops.
▪ Doyle was looking at the shop which sold oriental bits and pieces.
▪ Of course, we also provide practical project management training from the shop floor up.
▪ Packets are available at gyms, athletic stores and pet shops throughout Tucson, or by calling 647-7572.
▪ Record shops had replaced the local cobbler, and Dolcis had given way to Mary Quant.
▪ Shopkeepers and their families were seldom seen outside their shops.
▪ Surplus radio and electronics shops are another source.
▪ The smith's shop where my father worked was reached through a doorway at the right of the carpenter's shop.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
▪ If these appear dullish, it could pay to shop around.
▪ Thus far, the trade wires have been quiet as general managers shop around for the best deals.
▪ Our main 1979 survey suggested that weekly-collection credit users do not shop around for bargains as much as others.
▪ Owners shop around for a new-stadium deal.
▪ The thinking seems to be that many savers are too ignorant or lazy to shop around.
▪ It is well worthwhile getting plenty of advice and shopping around.
▪ Chances are, you can match any Houston rate if you take the time and effort to shop around your own city.
home
▪ Home shopping as a whole accounts for only 3% of retail spending.
▪ Interactive catalogs are the customized interface to consumer applications such as home shopping.
▪ Home shopping alone has spent £35 million over the past five years putting in computer systems.
▪ Broadband services will include video-on-demand, home shopping, banking and network games, he said.
▪ For instance, look at the success of on-line chat services and home shopping channels.
▪ A: I think people will see the Internet as an excellent way to do home shopping.
■ NOUN
christmas
▪ Have you finished your Christmas shopping or have you yet to begin?
▪ Feeley was shown at a press briefing saying it was just some early Christmas shopping.
▪ Not Christmas shopping time already, is it?
▪ Avoid the hustle and bustle of high street Christmas shopping.
comparison
▪ Whether they're called comparison engines, shopping, or bargains finders, they more or less do the same thing.
▪ If people were to live by comparison shopping, the town would go bust.
▪ Shop with ease, comparison price shopping.
▪ Finally, do some comparison shopping and a price / benefit analysis.
consumer
▪ Increasingly price-conscious consumers are shopping less at department stores and more at discount stores and general merchandise stores.
▪ Changing consumer shopping patterns and lack of food management skills at the company subsequently led to below-expected results.
▪ At these large markets, although they purchased from many different retailers, consumers could shop for all their food needs.
customer
▪ A spokesman said that customers could carry on shopping as normal.
▪ Beaty recalls one customer shopping for a package deal: a mountain bike and a sedan.
▪ A customer who shops regularly at one retail outlet will get to know where the items she normally buys are displayed.
▪ And booksellers should open across trading hours which match when customers want to shop - including Sundays.
grocery
▪ The group already operates a successful online grocery shopping service through its Waitrose supermarket chain.
▪ Metro Food Markets, a chain with 12 stores in the Baltimore area, plans to introduce on-line grocery shopping this fall.
place
▪ It is a good place to shop in still.
▪ With handy offers like a free performance analysis on your site, TrustWise is an excellent place to go certificate shopping.
▪ This was the premiere place for Angelenos to shop even through the 1960s.
supermarket
▪ Food Giant claims we're all spending far more than we need to when we shop at the well-known supermarkets.
▪ He shops in the supermarket like anyone else, he carries out the garbage, shovels the snow off the sidewalk.
▪ If none of these options are open to you, then shopping at a large supermarket is probably the best solution.
▪ Imagine that you are shopping at your local supermarket.
■ VERB
go
▪ And if she was staying she had to go shopping for groceries.
▪ Take an extra exercise class. Go shopping.
▪ Where do pixies and elves go shopping?
▪ I got to go shopping with the wardrobe people at the beginning of the season.
▪ The 15-year-old asks if he can go off shopping on his own for a few hours.
▪ When the going gets tough, the tough allegedly go shopping, and into debt.
▪ The next day, Saturday, we go shopping.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crying/shopping/talking etc jag
▪ I had an incredible crying jag.
do the shopping
▪ I did all my shopping yesterday.
▪ On Saturdays we usually do the shopping and clean the house.
▪ She sent her husband out to do the week's shopping.
▪ We need to go grocery shopping - do you have the check book?
▪ But then, Harriet with her fair-haired plaits and smooth round forehead jiggling off to help Mummy do the shopping.
▪ Husbands can easily get out of touch with the cost of living unless they do the shopping regularly and see the bills.
▪ It is good for me to get out and do the shopping.
▪ Jane would light the fire, turn the heating on, put the horses and donkey out and do the shopping.
▪ Our sick ones received their injections, then off we went to do the shopping.
▪ While I do the shopping, Miles sits near the checkout counter reading.
▪ With Chancellor at the wheel, they had left enfamille to do the shopping.
▪ With Ivy and Ken she would take a weekly trip into Aberdeen or Banchory to do the shopping.
factory girl/shop girl/office girl
like a bull in a china shop
▪ Politically, he often behaved like a bull in a china shop.
▪ You're not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop again?
mobile library/shop/clinic etc
▪ A mobile library visits once a fortnight.
▪ A ferocious sandstorm overturned a mobile library.
▪ A tent will not be a building, nor will a phone kiosk or a mobile shop.
▪ In some remoter villages mobile shops play an important role, but these rarely create jobs in these villages themselves.
▪ The dry cleaner delivers, mobile clinics come to you.
▪ We have a mobile clinic for them with eight centres. 1 want to start a colony for them.
one-stop shop/store etc
▪ Intuit is now aiming to become a one-stop shopping source for anyone looking to do home banking.
▪ Once combined, the companies hope to provide one-stop shopping-all of their services to customers on one bill.
▪ The attraction to consumers, Schneider said, would be one-stop shopping and possibly extra services.
▪ The companies' will explore ways to provide one-stop shopping for utilities that want to automate many of their business functions.
▪ The opening would give many franchisers their first permanent showrooms and allow for one-stop shopping by potential franchisees.
▪ Their goal is to become the one-stop shopping mall of cyberspace.
shopping/pedestrian precinct
▪ Continue through Headington shopping precinct until reaching Windmill Road traffic lights, turn right and continue until the roundabout.
▪ For a modern, purpose-built resort it is surprisingly attractive, with its wood-clad buildings and cobbled shopping precincts.
▪ However, most cities now have some car-free space in the form of arcades, converted streets or purpose-built pedestrian precincts.
▪ James was found dead beside a railway line in Liverpool after disappearing from a shopping precinct in Bootle last month.
▪ The life of a new shopping precinct may be no more than twenty years.
▪ The shopping precinct is full of teenagers gathered in small clusters, smoking, gossiping, laughing, scuffling.
▪ The two-year-old disappeared 11 days ago from Bootle's Strand shopping precinct.
▪ They are usually found in town centres and shopping precincts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I usually shop at Safeway. It's just around the corner from my house.
▪ When she moved here, she had never shopped in a supermarket before.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I cleaned the house, shopped, washed and cooked.
▪ If you are shopping, stop outside the shop and go over the rules and consequences.
▪ Take time to shop around; get to know your local wine merchant or investigate your local supermarket.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shop

Shop \Shop\, obs. imp. of Shape. Shaped.
--Chaucer.

Shop

Shop \Shop\, n. [OE. shoppe, schoppe, AS. sceoppa a treasury, a storehouse, stall, booth; akin to scypen a shed, LG. schup a shed, G. schoppen, schuppen, a shed, a coachhouse, OHG. scopf.]

  1. A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.

    From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The polished counter.
    --Cowper.

  2. A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.

    A tailor called me in his shop.
    --Shak.

  3. A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; -- sometimes in deprecation or disapproval; as, to talk shop at a party. Also used attributively, as in shop talk.

  4. A place where any industry is carried on; as, a chemist's shop; also, (Slang), any of the various places of business which are commonly called offices, as of a lawyer, doctor, broker, etc.

  5. Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc.

  6. the group of workers and the activities controlled by an administrator; as, to have five people in one's shop.

    Note: Shop is often used adjectively or in composition; as, shop rent, or shop-rent; shop thief, or shop-thief; shop window, or shop-window, etc.

    To smell of the shop, to indicate too distinctively one's occupation or profession.

    To talk shop, to make one's business the topic of social conversation; also, to use the phrases peculiar to one's employment. [Colloq.]

    Syn: Store; warehouse. See Store.

Shop

Shop \Shop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Shopping.] To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.

He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping.
--Byron.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shop

c.1300, "booth or shed for trade or work," perhaps from Old English scoppa, a rare word of uncertain meaning, apparently related to scypen "cowshed," from Proto-Germanic *skoppan "small additional structure" (cognates: Old High German scopf "building without walls, porch," German dialectal Scopf "porch, cart-shed, barn," German Schuppen "a shed"), from root *skupp-. Or the Middle English word was acquired from Old French eschoppe "booth, stall" (Modern French échoppe), which is a Germanic loan-word from the same root.\n

\nMeaning "building or room set aside for sale of merchandise" is from mid-14c. Meaning "schoolroom equipped for teaching vocational arts" is from 1914, American English. Sense of "matters pertaining to one's trade" is from 1814 (as in talk shop (v.), 1860).

shop

1680s, "to bring something to a shop, to expose for sale," from shop (n.). The meaning "to visit shops for the purpose of examining or purchasing goods" is first attested 1764. Related: Shopped; shopping. Shop around is from 1922. Shopping cart is recorded from 1956; shopping list first attested 1913; transferred and figurative use is from 1959.\n

Related phrases:
Wiktionary
shop

interj. (non-gloss definition: Used to attract the services of a shop assistant) n. 1 An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well. 2 A place where things are crafted; a workshop or hobbyshop. 3 An automobile mechanic's workplace. 4 workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as ''shop talk'', ''closed shop'' and ''shop floor''. 5 A variety of classes taught in junior high school or senior high school that teach vocational skill. 6 (context business computing English) an organisation using specified programming languages or software, often exclusively. 7 An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies. 8 (label en figurative uncountable) Discussion of business or professional affairs. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something. 2 (context transitive slang chiefly UK English) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority. 3 (context transitive internet slang English) Shorthand for ''photoshop''; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.

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WordNet
shop

  1. n. a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod" [syn: store]

  2. small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done [syn: workshop]

  3. a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity); "I built a birdhouse in shop" [syn: shop class]

  4. [also: shopping, shopped]

shop

  1. v. do one's shopping; "She goes shopping every Friday"

  2. do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of [syn: patronize, patronise, shop at, buy at, frequent, sponsor] [ant: boycott, boycott]

  3. shop around; not necessarily buying; "I don't need help, I'm just browsing" [syn: browse]

  4. give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, snitch, stag]

  5. [also: shopping, shopped]

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Gazetteer
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Wikipedia
Shop

Shop may refer to:

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Usage examples of "shop".

Evidently, the Acme shop simply carried red primroses, of the species primula obconica because there was a call for them.

It was chance, Harry was sure, that had taken Paula to the Hong Kong Shop after she had bought red primroses at the Acme Florists.

The cab passed the Acme Florists on the way, and Harry saw Darvel give the shop a sharp look, but that was the only incident, until they reached Chinatown.

The lighted window represented the Acme Florist Shop, which dealt in various specialties and always stayed open late.

The reason is that the yellow pages are the prime reference for re- 4 actionary shopping.

He guessed correctly about where she was heading: back to the acupuncture shop.

Also remember to keep your profit margins as tight as possible because, as in infomercial advertising, the markup must be high for the TV shopping channel to make money.

Athenian Agora, which housed not only shops and markets but government and law offices, the mint for coining money, and the prison.

Stonehampton, among the low wharves and wooden warehouses, which stood along the flat banks, jumbled up with streets and ferries, queer one-storied shops and verandahed dwelling-houses, closed in with yellow alamandas, passion fruit, and orange begonias.

Following him, Alec discovered a comfortable sitting room behind the shop.

The sitting room fire had been banked, however, meaning the master of the house was not coming down again before morning- Alec took a lightstone on a handle from his tool roll and shielded it with one hand as he crept to the door leading to the shop.

Then Alee, pulling himself slowly away from the counter, went from the shop.

Adam saw Paul, the innkeeper, standing under his new alestake, and the two near-neighbors nodded to each other as Adam, still grinning, turned off to the left, up the street beside his shop.

Assantikkan and did business in the Assantikkan quarter, Almered al zef Bakkuran had a shop in the Cassorin style rather than an open stall in the bazaar.

Graciela watched the visitors as they sat at the pavement cafes drinking aperitives or shopping at the pescaderia - the fish market, or thefarmacia.