shop1 nounshop2 verb
shopshop1 /ʃɒp $ ʃɑːp/ ●●● S1 W1 noun 
WORD ORIGINshop1
Origin:
Old English sceoppa ‘stall’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- 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.
- 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.
THESAURUS
especially British English, store especially American English a building or place where things are sold: · She's gone to the shops to get some milk.· a clothes shop· Our local store has sold out of sugar for making jam.
a small shop that sells fashionable clothes or other objects: · a little boutique which specializes in bath products.
British English a very large shop, especially one that is built outside the centre of a city: · Out-of-town superstores have taken business away from shops in the city centre.
a very large shop that is divided into several big parts, each of which sells one type of thing, such as clothes, furniture, or kitchen equipment: · He went around all the big department stores in Oxford Street.
(also grocery store American English) a very large shop that sells food, drinks, and things that people need regularly in their homes: · Supermarkets have cut down the number of plastic bags they distribute by 50%.
a shop where you can get your hair washed, cut curled etc
British English, nursery especially American English a place that sells a wide range of plants, seeds, and things for your garden: · Your local garden centre can advise you on which plants to grow.
formal a shop that sells things for less than the usual price, especially things from a particular company or things of a particular type: · The book is available from most retail outlets.
an area, usually outdoors, where people buy and sell many different types of things: · I usually buy our vegetables at the market – they're much cheaper there.
especially American English a large area where there are a lot of shops, especially a large building: · A new restaurant has opened at the mall.· We used to hang around together at the mall.
American English a row of shops built together, with a large area for parking cars in front of it: · Strip malls can seem rather impersonal.
Longman Language Activatora shop especially British /store especially American a building or place where things are sold: · Could you run down to the shop and get me some cigarettes?· A lot of the stores on the main street had been boarded up.· I asked in my local record shop but they couldn't help me.· I saw Helen at the grocery store this morning.· I got it from the secondhand furniture shop.· a new health food shop· It's where the old jewelry store used to be.
one of a group of large shops that have the same name and are owned by the same company: · A lot of the old Victorian buildings are being pulled down to make way for chain stores.
a shop where a company sells its goods - use this in business or legal contexts: · Benetton has retail outlets in every major European city.· The company has been forced to close hundreds of its retail outlets.
different types of shop also grocery store American a large shop that sells a wide range of things, especially food, cleaning materials, and other things that people buy regularly: · Can you get pine nuts in the grocery store?· There are plans to open a new supermarket next year.
especially American a shop in your local area that sells food, alcohol, magazines etc and is often open 24 hours a day: · Believe me, if his father wasn't so rich, that guy would be working in a convenience store.
British /corner store American a small local shop, usually on the corner of a street, that sells food, newspapers, cigarettes etc: · The corner shop's started selling sandwiches now, and I'd rather go there than the supermarket.· His parents ran a little corner store in the Castro in San Francisco.
also baker's British a shop that sells bread and cakes, especially one that also makes the bread and cakes: · She runs a French bakery in North London.
British /butcher shop American a shop that sells meat: · Many small independent butchers are closing down.
also deli informal a shop, or part of a larger shop, that sells high quality food such as cheeses and cold meats, often from different countries: · There's an Italian deli here and their homemade ravioli is delicious.deli counter (=the part in a large shop where high-quality cheese, cold meat etc is sold): · I had to wait for fifteen minutes at the deli counter this morning.
British also offie informal, also liquor store American a shop that sells beer, wine, and other alcoholic drinks that you drink at home
also chemist's British /drugstore American a shop that sells medicines, beauty and baby products etc
especially American a shop or part of a shop where medicines are made and sold
also hardware shop British a shop that sells equipment and tools that you can use in your home or garden
British a shop that sells newspapers and magazines, cigarettes, chocolates etc: · Ruth waited for him outside the newsagent's.
a small structure on a street, that sells newspapers and magazines: · He bought a paper at a newstand near the entrance to the park.
a very small shop on a street, that has an open window where you can buy newspapers, cigarettes, chocolate etc: · There must be a kiosk selling phone cards around here somewhere.
especially British /stand American a table, especially in a market, where goods are placed: · Justin used to mind the stall while his father was in the cafe, drinking.· I bought a few trinkets at the souvenir stand.market stall: · The trouble is, you can't really try the clothes on at a market stall.
big shops a very large shop that is divided into several big parts, each of which sells one type of thing, such as clothes, furniture, or kitchen equipment: · We couldn't find anything we wanted in the big department stores, and then we came across this little boutique.
British a very large modern shop, especially one that is built outside the centre of a city: · A new Tesco superstore is being planned for the site.
British /home improvement center American a very large shop that sells equipment and tools for repairing and decorating your home: · You'll find these at your local home improvement center.
British /nursery especially American a place that sells a wide range of plants, seeds, and things for your garden: · It's the only good garden centre around here.
a lot of shops together in one place British /shopping center American an area in a town where there are a lot of shops that have all been built together in the same place: · The boy was found dead two days after he disappeared from a shopping centre.· They had a big Santa exhibition on at the shopping center.
especially American a very large building with lots of shops inside it, and often also cinemas, restaurants etc: · We'll probably go to the mall and check out the beds there.· It's difficult to get a parking space at Shepherd's Mall.
American a row of shops in one long building that has space to park cars around it: · Strip malls were springing up all over town, and the local residents were up in arms.
British an area of a town where there are a lot of shops, especially one where vehicles are not allowed: · They've got a lovely new Burton's open in the precinct now.shopping precinct: · They wandered around the shopping precinct for an hour while Suzie was having her hair cut.pedestrian precinct: · I think they should make the whole area a pedestrian precinct.
an area, usually outdoors, where people buy and sell many different types of things: · I bet you could have got that cheaper at the market.· You occasionally see eel in the fish market, but it's quite rare these days.farmer's market (=place where farmers can sell what they grow and other food): flea market (=place where old and used things are sold)
people who work in a shop British /sales clerk American someone whose job is to serve customers and sell things in a shop, especially in a big shop such as a department store: · She was a bit rude, that shop assistant, don't you think?· I'm working weekends as a sales clerk.
someone who is in charge of a shop: · I'd like to see the manager please.branch/area manager (=someone who is manager of all the shops owned by one particular company in one area): · Ron was promoted to branch manager of the North West region.
British someone who owns or manages a small shop: · A lot of the smaller shopkeepers didn't have any insurance at all.· The money for the Christmas lights was raised by a group of local shopkeepers, who want to attract shoppers to the area.
British someone who sells things in a market: · The market traders have started a petition to try and stop the development going ahead.
to go to shops in order to buy things to go to shops to look at and buy things: · Let's meet in town. We can have lunch and go shopping.· I'm going shopping now. Do you want anything?
to go to shops in order to buy the things that you need regularly such as food: · On Saturdays we usually do the shopping and clean the house.· She sent her husband out to do the week's shopping.do my/your etc shopping: · I did all my shopping yesterday.grocery shopping American (=shopping for food): · We need to go grocery shopping - do you have the check book?
British go to the store American to go out to the local shop or shops in order to buy something, especially the things that you need regularly such as food: · "Where's Julie?'' "She's gone to the shops.''· If you go to the store, could you get some milk?· Mr Parker, my next-door neighbour, is getting old and I sometimes go to the shops for him.
to regularly use a particular shop , especially to buy things that you need regularly such as food: shop at/in: · 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.
to go to several different shops comparing goods and their prices before deciding which ones to buy: · If you shop around you could probably get the camera a lot cheaper.shop around for: · I spent a couple of weeks shopping around for the lowest insurance rates.
when you look at things in shop windows without intending to buy anything: · We spent the morning window shopping at all the antique stores.
to talk to someone about a problem, plan, or serious subject · I think we need to talk.talk about · If you're having trouble at school, let's sit down and talk about it.talk to · Gerry wants to talk to his girlfriend before he makes a decision.talk with American · It's important to talk with your kids about drugs, alcohol, and sex.
if people discuss a subject or situation, they exchange ideas and opinions about it, so it is easier to make a decision or make plans: · The whole family got together to discuss funeral arrangements.· We never discuss our financial difficulties in front of the children.discuss what/how/where etc: · We need to discuss what kind of food we want at the party.discuss something with somebody: · Don't make any plans yet - I want to discuss this with Jamie first.
also speak with American to talk to someone about something serious or official: · Maybe it's time for you to speak to a lawyer.· The woman had come all the way from Denver to speak with the President.speak to about: · I intend to speak to the manager about the way I have been treated.· Have you spoken with Michael about the scheduling conflict?
to talk to someone seriously about something you have planned to discuss, especially about a problem or future plans: · Don and I had a long talk, and I think we understand each other better now.have a talk about: · I think it's time we had a talk about your future here in the company.have a talk with: · If this behavior continues, I'm going to have to have a little talk with her.· Someone should have a serious talk with Lucy about the amount of alcohol she drinks.
to talk to someone for a period of time about a serious subject: · The two leaders had a brief conversation yesterday.have a conversation with: · I've had conversations with several employers who say there are not enough qualified people to fill the jobs they have.have a conversation about: · We need to have a conversation with our lawyers about the will.
to talk to someone about all the details of a serious problem or difficult situation, in order to understand it better: talk something over: · If you're worried about your work, come and see me and we'll talk it over.talk over something: · I took him out to dinner so we could talk over the problem.talk something over with somebody: · It's often useful to talk things over with a trained counsellor.
to talk to someone quickly, and usually privately, about something serious: · His attitude got so bad his manager was forced to have a word with him.· Jim had a word with Mary, and she took the children out of the room.I'd like (to have) a word with you: · I'd like a word with you in private.
to have a private conversation in which two people both say honestly and sincerely what they feel about something personal: · Don't go in there right now - I think Dean and Carlo are having a heart-to-heart.have a heart-to-heart talk/a heart-to-heart with: · If you think your boss doesn't like you, have a heart-to-heart talk with her.
if two or more people who do the same work talk shop , they have a conversation about their work on a social occasion: · I don't want to go out to dinner with him and his lawyer friends - all they ever do is talk shop.
American informal to talk seriously and honestly about matters that need to be agreed, especially business matters: · OK, enough joking around - let's talk turkey.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
Her brother runs a record shop in Chester. I’m just going down to the shops. I spent a happy afternoon wandering around the shops. The generators are put together in the machine shop. One auto shop class is run just for girls. She always does the weekly shop on a Friday.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES They bought the clock at an antique shop in Bath. I need to go shopping this afternoon. a huge new shopping mall We are looking for more retail outlets for our products. a souvenir shop a shopping spree
Her brother runs a record shop in Chester. I’m just going down to the shops. I spent a happy afternoon wandering around the shops. The generators are put together in the machine shop. One auto shop class is run just for girls. She always does the weekly shop on a Friday. They bought the clock at an antique shop in Bath.· She loaded her shopping bags into the back of the car.
· She paid for the apples and put them in her shopping basket.
(also bicycle store American English)· His dream was to own a bicycle shop.
(also book store American English)· I got it from that little book shop in the village.
· There’s a very good cake shop in the market.
· They are building a huge new shopping centre just outside the town.
(=one that gives the money it makes to a charity)· Give your old clothes to a charity shop.
(=for presents for people)· Have you done your Christmas shopping yet?
· Some old buildings were pulled down to make space for a new shopping complex.
(=selling things made by craftsmen or women)
(=selling things more cheaply than other shops)· There's a lot of competition from large discount stores.
· The bomb exploded in a crowded shopping district.
· Who does the cooking in your family?
(=selling women’s dresses and other clothes)· It was an expensive dress shop.
(also an exclusive store American English)· I walked along Bond Street, past all the exclusive shops.
(=when you go shopping)· I took Mary and the kids on a shopping expedition into Manchester.
· We walked around Milan’s famous fashion shops.
· She works in the fish shop on the High Street.
· He used to run a flower shop.
· The gift shop was well stocked with souvenirs.
I need to go shopping this afternoon.· The new regulations will increase customer confidence in Internet shopping.· Internet banking saves customers a lot of time.
(=a list of things you want to buy)· a Christmas shopping list
a huge new shopping mall· Your local pet shop will have a variety of different collars.
(=a place where things of a particular kind are repaired)· He works in a shoe repair shop.
We are looking for more retail outlets for our products. (=a shop that sells second-hand things)
British English, a shoe store American English
a souvenir shop a shopping spree British English (=with a lot of shops)· This is one of Europe’s most elegant shopping streets.
· He was knocked off his bicycle on his way home from a shopping trip.
· A meeting will be held at the village hall on Tuesday.
· She looked in shop windows.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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 THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► factory girl/shop girl/office girl► pop-up restaurant/bar/shop etc
- He ran us all over the shop.
- In between he was, for much of the time, all over the shop, scrambling pars more than hunting birdies.
- It was splashed all over the shops!
- With skating there's no-one saying do this, do that all over the shop.
- Dr. Rosen closed his downtown practice and set up shop in a suburban neighborhood.
- Jack got his law degree, then set up shop as a real estate lawyer.
- At the age of 22 he set up shop in Sweeting's Alley, which was near the Royal Exchange.
- Each failed when a dispute arose and some group walked out of the union to set up shop down the block.
- My body and the kindly Earth have set up shop against me.
- NxtWave opted not to set up shop in Silicon Valley and instead chose Langhorne.
- S., new steel mills are setting up shop.
- The two Yankees started the business set up shop right where you see it.
- Wade Smith was given salesman of the year in January and promptly left to set up shop on his own.
- 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.
- Are you two going to talk shop all night?
- I don't want to go out to dinner with him and his lawyer friends - all they ever do is 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- We went down the shops on Saturdays.
- 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.
- I had an incredible crying jag.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
WORD FAMILYnounshopshoppershoppingverbshop
1place where you buy things [countable] especially British English a building or part of a building where you can buy things, food, or services SYN store American Englishtoy/pet/shoe/gift etc shop Her brother runs a record shop in Chester. a barber’s shop a fish-and-chip shop the local shops Shirley saw her reflection in the shop window.in the shops New potatoes are in the shops now. I’m just going down to the shops.wander/browse around the shops I spent a happy afternoon wandering around the shops. → bucket shop, corner shop, coffee shop2place that makes/repairs things [countable] a place where something is made or repaired: The generators are put together in the machine shop. a bicycle repair shop → shop floor, shop steward3school subject (also shop class) [uncountable] American English a subject taught in schools that shows students how to use tools and machinery to make or repair thingsin shop Doug made this table in shop.wood/metal/print etc shop One auto shop class is run just for girls.4set up shop informal to start a business5shut up shop British English, close up shop American English informal to close a shop or business, either temporarily or permanently6talk shop informal to talk about things that are related to your work, especially in a way that other people find boring: I’m fed up with you two talking shop. → shop talk7all over the shop British English spoken a)scattered around untidily: There were bits of paper all over the shop. b)confused and disorganized: I’m all over the shop this morning.8go shopping [singular] British English spoken an occasion when you go shopping, especially for food and other things you need regularly: She always does the weekly shop on a Friday.THESAURUSshop especially British English, store especially American English a building or place where things are sold: · She's gone to the shops to get some milk.· a clothes shop· Our local store has sold out of sugar for making jam.boutique a small shop that sells fashionable clothes or other objects: · a little boutique which specializes in bath products.superstore British English a very large shop, especially one that is built outside the centre of a city: · Out-of-town superstores have taken business away from shops in the city centre.department store a very large shop that is divided into several big parts, each of which sells one type of thing, such as clothes, furniture, or kitchen equipment: · He went around all the big department stores in Oxford Street.supermarket (also grocery store American English) a very large shop that sells food, drinks, and things that people need regularly in their homes: · Supermarkets have cut down the number of plastic bags they distribute by 50%.salon a shop where you can get your hair washed, cut curled etcgarden centre British English, nursery especially American English a place that sells a wide range of plants, seeds, and things for your garden: · Your local garden centre can advise you on which plants to grow.outlet formal a shop that sells things for less than the usual price, especially things from a particular company or things of a particular type: · The book is available from most retail outlets.market an area, usually outdoors, where people buy and sell many different types of things: · I usually buy our vegetables at the market – they're much cheaper there.mall especially American English a large area where there are a lot of shops, especially a large building: · A new restaurant has opened at the mall.· We used to hang around together at the mall.strip mall American English a row of shops built together, with a large area for parking cars in front of it: · Strip malls can seem rather impersonal.shop1 nounshop2 verb
shopshop2 ●●● S2 verb (past tense and past participle shopped, present participle shopping) VERB TABLE
shop
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | shop |
| he, she, it | shops | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | shopped |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have shopped |
| he, she, it | has shopped | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had shopped |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will shop |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have shopped |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am shopping |
| he, she, it | is shopping | |
| you, we, they | are shopping | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was shopping |
| you, we, they | were shopping | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been shopping |
| he, she, it | has been shopping | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been shopping |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be shopping |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been shopping |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- 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.
- 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.
Longman Language Activatora shop
especially British /store especially American a building or place where things are sold: · Could you run down to the shop and get me some cigarettes?· A lot of the stores on the main street had been boarded up.· I asked in my local record shop but they couldn't help me.· I saw Helen at the grocery store this morning.· I got it from the secondhand furniture shop.· a new health food shop· It's where the old jewelry store used to be.
one of a group of large shops that have the same name and are owned by the same company: · A lot of the old Victorian buildings are being pulled down to make way for chain stores.
a shop where a company sells its goods - use this in business or legal contexts: · Benetton has retail outlets in every major European city.· The company has been forced to close hundreds of its retail outlets.
different types of shop also grocery store American a large shop that sells a wide range of things, especially food, cleaning materials, and other things that people buy regularly: · Can you get pine nuts in the grocery store?· There are plans to open a new supermarket next year.
especially American a shop in your local area that sells food, alcohol, magazines etc and is often open 24 hours a day: · Believe me, if his father wasn't so rich, that guy would be working in a convenience store.
British /corner store American a small local shop, usually on the corner of a street, that sells food, newspapers, cigarettes etc: · The corner shop's started selling sandwiches now, and I'd rather go there than the supermarket.· His parents ran a little corner store in the Castro in San Francisco.
also baker's British a shop that sells bread and cakes, especially one that also makes the bread and cakes: · She runs a French bakery in North London.
British /butcher shop American a shop that sells meat: · Many small independent butchers are closing down.
also deli informal a shop, or part of a larger shop, that sells high quality food such as cheeses and cold meats, often from different countries: · There's an Italian deli here and their homemade ravioli is delicious.deli counter (=the part in a large shop where high-quality cheese, cold meat etc is sold): · I had to wait for fifteen minutes at the deli counter this morning.
British also offie informal, also liquor store American a shop that sells beer, wine, and other alcoholic drinks that you drink at home
also chemist's British /drugstore American a shop that sells medicines, beauty and baby products etc
especially American a shop or part of a shop where medicines are made and sold
also hardware shop British a shop that sells equipment and tools that you can use in your home or garden
British a shop that sells newspapers and magazines, cigarettes, chocolates etc: · Ruth waited for him outside the newsagent's.
a small structure on a street, that sells newspapers and magazines: · He bought a paper at a newstand near the entrance to the park.
a very small shop on a street, that has an open window where you can buy newspapers, cigarettes, chocolate etc: · There must be a kiosk selling phone cards around here somewhere.
especially British /stand American a table, especially in a market, where goods are placed: · Justin used to mind the stall while his father was in the cafe, drinking.· I bought a few trinkets at the souvenir stand.market stall: · The trouble is, you can't really try the clothes on at a market stall.
big shops a very large shop that is divided into several big parts, each of which sells one type of thing, such as clothes, furniture, or kitchen equipment: · We couldn't find anything we wanted in the big department stores, and then we came across this little boutique.
British a very large modern shop, especially one that is built outside the centre of a city: · A new Tesco superstore is being planned for the site.
British /home improvement center American a very large shop that sells equipment and tools for repairing and decorating your home: · You'll find these at your local home improvement center.
British /nursery especially American a place that sells a wide range of plants, seeds, and things for your garden: · It's the only good garden centre around here.
a lot of shops together in one place British /shopping center American an area in a town where there are a lot of shops that have all been built together in the same place: · The boy was found dead two days after he disappeared from a shopping centre.· They had a big Santa exhibition on at the shopping center.
especially American a very large building with lots of shops inside it, and often also cinemas, restaurants etc: · We'll probably go to the mall and check out the beds there.· It's difficult to get a parking space at Shepherd's Mall.
American a row of shops in one long building that has space to park cars around it: · Strip malls were springing up all over town, and the local residents were up in arms.
British an area of a town where there are a lot of shops, especially one where vehicles are not allowed: · They've got a lovely new Burton's open in the precinct now.shopping precinct: · They wandered around the shopping precinct for an hour while Suzie was having her hair cut.pedestrian precinct: · I think they should make the whole area a pedestrian precinct.
an area, usually outdoors, where people buy and sell many different types of things: · I bet you could have got that cheaper at the market.· You occasionally see eel in the fish market, but it's quite rare these days.farmer's market (=place where farmers can sell what they grow and other food): flea market (=place where old and used things are sold)
people who work in a shop British /sales clerk American someone whose job is to serve customers and sell things in a shop, especially in a big shop such as a department store: · She was a bit rude, that shop assistant, don't you think?· I'm working weekends as a sales clerk.
someone who is in charge of a shop: · I'd like to see the manager please.branch/area manager (=someone who is manager of all the shops owned by one particular company in one area): · Ron was promoted to branch manager of the North West region.
British someone who owns or manages a small shop: · A lot of the smaller shopkeepers didn't have any insurance at all.· The money for the Christmas lights was raised by a group of local shopkeepers, who want to attract shoppers to the area.
British someone who sells things in a market: · The market traders have started a petition to try and stop the development going ahead.
to go to shops in order to buy things to go to shops to look at and buy things: · Let's meet in town. We can have lunch and go shopping.· I'm going shopping now. Do you want anything?
to go to shops in order to buy the things that you need regularly such as food: · On Saturdays we usually do the shopping and clean the house.· She sent her husband out to do the week's shopping.do my/your etc shopping: · I did all my shopping yesterday.grocery shopping American (=shopping for food): · We need to go grocery shopping - do you have the check book?
British go to the store American to go out to the local shop or shops in order to buy something, especially the things that you need regularly such as food: · "Where's Julie?'' "She's gone to the shops.''· If you go to the store, could you get some milk?· Mr Parker, my next-door neighbour, is getting old and I sometimes go to the shops for him.
to regularly use a particular shop , especially to buy things that you need regularly such as food: shop at/in: · 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.
to go to several different shops comparing goods and their prices before deciding which ones to buy: · If you shop around you could probably get the camera a lot cheaper.shop around for: · I spent a couple of weeks shopping around for the lowest insurance rates.
when you look at things in shop windows without intending to buy anything: · We spent the morning window shopping at all the antique stores.
when you are very careful about choosing things informal someone who is choosy chooses things carefully and only wants the things they think are the best: · I get offered a lot of work now, so I can be more choosy.choosy about: · She's very choosy about what airline she travels on.
informal someone who is fussy or picky is difficult to please because they only like a few things and will only accept exactly what they want: · Maybe I'm too picky, but all the guys I meet seem so boring.fussy/picky about: · She was always very fussy about her clothes.picky/fussy eater (=someone who will only eat the few things they like): · We're not really picky eaters, but we don't eat much fast food.
to be very careful about choosing only the very best of something, or only exactly what you like, usually with the result that people think you are too careful about it: be particular about about: · He's very particular about the clothes he buys.be particular about what/where etc: · Monica is particular about what she eats - no meat, and only organic vegetables.
someone who is selective chooses things very carefully because they want to choose the best, most suitable etc: · You've got to be very selective when choosing a roommate.selective about: · People are becoming more and more selective about the food they eat these days.
informal to look at or try several different possibilities before choosing the one which is the best, cheapest etc: · Never buy the first car you see. Always shop around.· Shop around a little bit before you choose a therapist.shop around for: · You should shop around for a better price.
WORD SETSalarmed, adjectiveallegation, nounamnesty, nounbail, nounbreath test, nouncharge sheet, nouncircumstantial, adjectivecompensation, nouncompensatory, adjectivecomplicity, nouncondemned, adjectivecondemned cell, nounconfess, verbconfession, nounconman, nouncontraband, nouncuff, verbdebug, verbdetain, verbdick, nounenforce, verbfed, nounFederal Bureau of Investigation, nounflogging, nounforensic, adjectivegallows, noungaolbird, noungas chamber, noungibbet, nounguillotine, nounhang, verbhanging, nounhard labour, nounimpeach, verbKC, nounlaunder, verblawsuit, nounleg irons, nounlicensed, adjectivelicensing laws, nounlife, nounlife sentence, nounline-up, nounlynch, verblynch mob, nounpenalty point, nounpenology, nounpolygraph, nounposse, nounprisoner, nounracket, nounracketeer, nounracketeering, nounrake-off, nounransom, nounransom, verbreport, verbreprieve, nounriot, nounshop, verbsilk, nounspeed trap, nounstalker, nounstrip search, nountransport, verbtransportation, nountribunal, nounundercover, adjectivevictim, nounwrongdoing, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES They bought the clock at an antique shop in Bath. I need to go shopping this afternoon. a huge new shopping mall We are looking for more retail outlets for our products. a souvenir shop a shopping spree
They bought the clock at an antique shop in Bath.· She loaded her shopping bags into the back of the car.
· She paid for the apples and put them in her shopping basket.
(also bicycle store American English)· His dream was to own a bicycle shop.
(also book store American English)· I got it from that little book shop in the village.
· There’s a very good cake shop in the market.
· They are building a huge new shopping centre just outside the town.
(=one that gives the money it makes to a charity)· Give your old clothes to a charity shop.
(=for presents for people)· Have you done your Christmas shopping yet?
· Some old buildings were pulled down to make space for a new shopping complex.
(=selling things made by craftsmen or women)
(=selling things more cheaply than other shops)· There's a lot of competition from large discount stores.
· The bomb exploded in a crowded shopping district.
· Who does the cooking in your family?
(=selling women’s dresses and other clothes)· It was an expensive dress shop.
(also an exclusive store American English)· I walked along Bond Street, past all the exclusive shops.
(=when you go shopping)· I took Mary and the kids on a shopping expedition into Manchester.
· We walked around Milan’s famous fashion shops.
· She works in the fish shop on the High Street.
· He used to run a flower shop.
· The gift shop was well stocked with souvenirs.
I need to go shopping this afternoon.· The new regulations will increase customer confidence in Internet shopping.· Internet banking saves customers a lot of time.
(=a list of things you want to buy)· a Christmas shopping list
a huge new shopping mall· Your local pet shop will have a variety of different collars.
(=a place where things of a particular kind are repaired)· He works in a shoe repair shop.
We are looking for more retail outlets for our products. (=a shop that sells second-hand things)
British English, a shoe store American English
a souvenir shop a shopping spree British English (=with a lot of shops)· This is one of Europe’s most elegant shopping streets.
· He was knocked off his bicycle on his way home from a shopping trip.
· A meeting will be held at the village hall on Tuesday.
· She looked in shop windows.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· 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 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· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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· 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 THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► factory girl/shop girl/office girl► pop-up restaurant/bar/shop etc
- I'm going shopping now. Do you want anything?
- Let's meet in town. We can have lunch and go shopping.
- And if she was staying she had to go shopping for groceries.
- Arrange to go shopping with a resident who wants to buy new clothes.
- By going shopping Mr Azcárraga has followed fashion.
- Governments measure inflation by going shopping.
- Richard and I go shopping on Castro Street.
- This was the case when Chavez decided to go shopping in Tampa.
- When it goes shopping for fresh solutions, the open organization ought to be looking for a good fit and durability.
- When she went shopping to the town she wore a long, voluminous, dark-grey cloak of which she was very proud.
- 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?
- 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.
- We went down the shops on Saturdays.
- 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.
- I had an incredible crying jag.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
WORD FAMILYnounshopshoppershoppingverbshop
1[intransitive] to go to one or more shops to buy thingsshop for I usually shop for vegetables in the market.shop at She always shops at Tesco’s. → window-shopping2go shopping (also be out shopping) to go to one or more shops to buy things, often for enjoyment: The next day, Saturday, we went shopping. Mum’s out shopping with Granny.3[transitive] British English informal to tell the police about someone who has done something illegal: He was shopped by his ex-wife.shop around phrasal verb to compare the price and quality of different things before you decide which to buyshop around for Take time to shop around for the best deal.