shop /ˈʃɑp/
商店,工廠,車間(vi.)購物,到處尋找(vt.)選購
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Shop, n.
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. [Slang, Chiefly Eng.]
6. the group of workers and the activities controlled by an administrator; as, to have five people in one's shop. [Colloq.]
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 obs. imp. of Shape. Shaped.
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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shop
n 1: 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]
v 1: 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]
[also: shopping, shopped]