shop
1 of 2noun
ˈshäp 
often attributive
1
: a handicraft establishment : atelier
2
a
: a building or room stocked with merchandise for sale : store
b
or less commonly shoppe
ˈshäp
: a small retail establishment or a department in a large one offering a specified line of goods or services a millinery shop
a sandwich shop
3
: a commercial establishment for the making or repair of goods or machinery
machine shop
repair shop
4
a
: a school laboratory equipped for industrial arts education
b
: the art or science of working with tools and machinery
5
a
: a business establishment : office
a public relations shop
b
: shoptalk
talking shop
shop
2 of 2verb
shopped; shopping
intransitive verb
1
a
: to examine goods or services with intent to buy
b
: to hunt through a market in search of the best buy
2
: to make a search : hunt
shopping around for a better idea
transitive verb
1
British : to inform on : betray
2
: to examine the stock or offerings of
shop the stores for Christmas gift ideas
3
: to offer for consideration or acceptance
especially : to offer for sale or in a trade —often used with around
shopping the manuscript around
Synonyms
Noun
- bazaar
- emporium
- store
Verb
- cast about (for)
- cast around (for)
- chase (down)
- forage (for)
- hunt
- look up
- pursue
- quest
- search (for or out)
- seek
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Example Sentences
Noun I took the car to the shop to get new brakes. I am taking shop this semester. I made a table in shop. The wood shop is down the hall. Verb Where do you like to shop? I like to shop at locally owned stores. She is shopping for a new car. Many people now shop online. She's shopping her idea for a film. His own mother shopped him to the police. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Jozsef Papp, ajc, 9 Sep. 2022 And in the middle of the shop, there are the wish list plants: rare varieties imported from around the world. Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022 And even at this makeshift sale, Willems and Lock were eager to keep the spirit of the shop alive and dispense record-store-clerk wisdom to regulars who missed it. BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2022 Throughout the day, fans from all over the world stop to take pictures in front of the shop selling Fast and Furious paraphernalia beside the normal bevy of snacks and drinks. Stephanie Elam, CNN, 3 Sep. 2022 Throughout the years, many trinkets made their way to our family through my favorite cousin Art, who spent a few years working at a pawn shop. Yesika Salgado, refinery29.com, 1 Sep. 2022 Preer, an employee of the shop, died shortly after arriving at a hospital the night of the shooting. Staff Report, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Aug. 2022 The rooms are modest, with small beds, a few cupboards and drawers, and large windows that look out over busy street traffic, a pawn shop, bar, laundromat and an axe-throwing business. Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2022 Now, Gold said, the retail business is sliding down as people try to spend less money to cover other bills and the pawn shop side is picking up. Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2022 Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2022 Keep scrolling to shop more coveralls inspired by her latest outfit to make between-season dressing a breeze. Alex Warner, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2022 Head to the Vogue World landing page to browse and shop our fall fashion edit, curated to include selects from our retail partners, including MatchesFashion.com Moda Operandi, Mytheresa, NET-A-PORTER, Nordstrom, and Ssense. Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2022 The flier listed 10 of the bakery's competitors and urged customers to shop there instead. Chuck Johnston And Ray Sanchez, CNN, 9 Sep. 2022 The goal is to encourage residents to shop at and support local businesses during the holiday season. Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 8 Sep. 2022 Starting this fall, the menu will expand to accommodate a flexitarian diet and customers will be able to shop the new vegan menu. Amy Fischer M.s., R.d., Good Housekeeping, 8 Sep. 2022 The question now is how Westbrook responds to his coach’s veiled threats and reports of how the team continues to shop him with training camp approaching. Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022 See the full Guest in Residence line here, and shop our personal favorites below. Meg Donohue, ELLE, 7 Sep. 2022 See More
Noun
In April of that year, the two were accused of stealing an iPad and tools and selling the items at a pawn shop, arrest warrants state. Jozsef Papp, ajc, 9 Sep. 2022 And in the middle of the shop, there are the wish list plants: rare varieties imported from around the world. Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022 And even at this makeshift sale, Willems and Lock were eager to keep the spirit of the shop alive and dispense record-store-clerk wisdom to regulars who missed it. BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2022 Throughout the day, fans from all over the world stop to take pictures in front of the shop selling Fast and Furious paraphernalia beside the normal bevy of snacks and drinks. Stephanie Elam, CNN, 3 Sep. 2022 Throughout the years, many trinkets made their way to our family through my favorite cousin Art, who spent a few years working at a pawn shop. Yesika Salgado, refinery29.com, 1 Sep. 2022 Preer, an employee of the shop, died shortly after arriving at a hospital the night of the shooting. Staff Report, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Aug. 2022 The rooms are modest, with small beds, a few cupboards and drawers, and large windows that look out over busy street traffic, a pawn shop, bar, laundromat and an axe-throwing business. Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2022 Now, Gold said, the retail business is sliding down as people try to spend less money to cover other bills and the pawn shop side is picking up. Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2022 Verb
Increasing the number of judges in these venues could help the jurisprudential traditions that are now being gutted gain a new foothold and lessen the opportunity for conservatives to forum-shop their way to victory. Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2022 Keep scrolling to shop more coveralls inspired by her latest outfit to make between-season dressing a breeze. Alex Warner, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2022 Head to the Vogue World landing page to browse and shop our fall fashion edit, curated to include selects from our retail partners, including MatchesFashion.com Moda Operandi, Mytheresa, NET-A-PORTER, Nordstrom, and Ssense. Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2022 The flier listed 10 of the bakery's competitors and urged customers to shop there instead. Chuck Johnston And Ray Sanchez, CNN, 9 Sep. 2022 The goal is to encourage residents to shop at and support local businesses during the holiday season. Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 8 Sep. 2022 Starting this fall, the menu will expand to accommodate a flexitarian diet and customers will be able to shop the new vegan menu. Amy Fischer M.s., R.d., Good Housekeeping, 8 Sep. 2022 The question now is how Westbrook responds to his coach’s veiled threats and reports of how the team continues to shop him with training camp approaching. Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022 See the full Guest in Residence line here, and shop our personal favorites below. Meg Donohue, ELLE, 7 Sep. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English shoppe, from Old English sceoppa booth; akin to Old High German scopf shed
First Known Use
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
1806, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 2
Phrases Containing shop
Kids Definition
shop 1 of 2
noun
ˈshäp
1
: a place where goods are sold : a usually small store
a flower shop
2
: a worker's place of business
the blacksmith shop
3
: a place in which workers are doing a particular kind of work
a repair shop
shop
2 of 2verb
shopped; shopping
: to visit stores or shops for the purpose of looking over and buying goods
Legal Definition
shop
noun
: a business establishment : a place of employment see also closed shop, open shop, union shop
shops 1 of 2
noun
1
as in stores
also shoppes an establishment where goods are sold to consumers the only shop that has that video game in stock is halfway across the state Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- stores
- markets
- emporiums
- bazaars
- marketplaces
- boutiques
- emporia
- outlets
- showrooms
- marts
- superstores
- mini-marts
- exchanges
- chain stores
- thrift shops
- department stores
- variety stores
- dime stores
- supercenters
- big boxes
- five-and-dimes
- five-and-tens
2
as in factories
a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods a machine shop Synonyms & Similar Words
- factories
- mills
- plants
- workshops
- works
- manufactories
- workplaces
- ateliers
- studios
- sweatshops
- workrooms
- yards
3
as in dialects
the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field the patient impressed her cardiologist with her ability to talk shop Synonyms & Similar Words
- dialects
- languages
- terminologies
- vocabularies
- slangs
- idioms
- shoptalk
- lingos
- cants
- argots
- colloquials
- lingoes
- jargons
- patois
- provincialisms
- patter
- vernaculars
- vernacularisms
- speeches
- colloquialisms
- jives
- parlances
- localisms
- regionalisms
- pidgins
- slanguages
- educationeses
- bureaucrateses
- governmenteses
- computereses
- technobabbles
- journaleses
- cyberspeaks
shops
2 of 2verb
as in peaches
Synonyms & Similar Words
- peaches
- turns in
- informs (on)
- splits (on)
- snitches (on)
- gives away
- rats (on)
- tells (on)
- backstabs
- crosses
- double-crosses
- sells (out)
- betrays
- two-times
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- shields
- protects
- guards
- stands by
- saves
- defends
- safeguards