shopnoun [ C ]
uk/ʃɒp/us/ʃɑːp/shop noun [ C ] (PLACE TO BUY THINGS)
A1 UK US usually store a place where you can buy goods or services:
UK the act of shopping, especially of shopping for food and other things needed in the house:
to be available to buy:
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- We could have a look round the shops if you like.
- The shop was closed.
- Most of the shops are open on Sundays.
- What time do the shops close?
- There are some lovely shops in the town centre.
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Shops & auctions
- army disposals store
- army surplus store
- army-navy store
- art gallery
- auction
- department store
- discount store
- discount warehouse
- druggist
- drugstore
- megastore
- milk bar
- newsagent
- newsstand
- off-licence
- superstore
- swap meet
- sweet shop
- tabletop sale
- tag sale
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shop noun [ C ] (WORK AREA)
a place where a particular type of thing is made or repaired:
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Factories
- assembly line
- brewery
- cannery
- conveyor belt
- cooling tower
- industrial estate
- industrial park
- mill
- miller
- mint
- on the factory floor idiom
- pallet
- power station
- production line
- slaughterhouse
- steel mill
- sweatshop
- tannery
- the shop floor
- workshop
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shop noun [ C ] (BUSINESS)
informal a business
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Shops & auctions
- army disposals store
- army surplus store
- army-navy store
- art gallery
- auction
- department store
- discount store
- discount warehouse
- druggist
- drugstore
- megastore
- milk bar
- newsagent
- newsstand
- off-licence
- superstore
- swap meet
- sweet shop
- tabletop sale
- tag sale
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Idiom(s)
shopverb
uk/ʃɒp/us/ʃɑːp/-pp-shop verb (BUY THINGS)
B1 [ I ] to buy things in shops:
More examples
- Where do you shop for food?
- I like to shop locally.
- When I'm shopping in town I often pop in there.
- I was born to shop.
- If I'm shopping for clothes I like to go alone.
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Buying
- acquisitiveness
- approval
- bid
- bidding war
- bite
- brand loyalty
- bulk-buy
- import
- invest
- kick the tires idiom
- load up on sth
- money-off
- on the slate idiom
- order form
- order sth in
- send out for sth
- shop around
- shopaholic
- shopping
- stock up
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shop verb (GIVE INFORMATION)
[ T ] UK slang to give the police information about a criminal:
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Revealing secrets & becoming known
- (the) word is/gets out idiom
- bare
- blow/take the lid off sth idiom
- break cover idiom
- cat
- dob sb in
- emerge
- fink
- get around (somewhere)
- give sth away
- King's evidence
- leak
- let the cat out of the bag idiom
- open your heart to someone idiom
- sneak
- spill the beans idiom
- tell on sb
- tongues wagging idiom
- turn
- unmask
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shop verb (OFFER FOR SALE)
[ T ] to offer something for sale, especially to several different companies in the hope that one of them will buy it:
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Selling
- auction
- bake sale
- bundle
- chain of production
- divest
- export
- pile
- pile it high and sell it cheap idiom
- price yourself out of the market idiom
- privatize
- purvey
- realizable
- realization
- serve
- shift
- supersize
- telesales
- tout
- undercharge
- unsold
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