SHOP


Meaning of SHOP in English

I. ˈshäp noun

( -s )

Usage: often attributive

Etymology: Middle English shoppe, from Old English sceoppa booth; akin to Middle Dutch schoppe booth, Old High German scopf shed, Old English scypen, scepen, scipen cowshed, and probably to Old English scēaf sheaf — more at sheaf

1.

a. : a handicraft establishment : atelier , studio

three shops exclusively devoted to the hand-hammering of gold leaf — American Guide Series: New Jersey

b. : a team of glassworkers usually consisting of a gatherer, blower, and servitor : chair

one … shop of men worked at each glory hole — Freda Diamond

2.

a. : a building or room stocked with merchandise for sale : store

the shops offer plenty of food and consumers' goods — Drew Middleton

b. or shoppe “

(1) : a small retail establishment or a department in a large one offering a specified line of goods or services

gift shop

sport shop

beauty shop

(2) : a small retail establishment concentrating on exclusive or top quality merchandise : a specialty shop

c. : something that resembles a shop

Paris University was the great thinking- shop, the main European market of theologico-philosophical ideas — G.G.Coulton

d.

(1) : a center of operations

sets up shop on the tailboard of a station wagon — J.S.Redding

set up shop in the area … and handled over half a million refugees before the exodus was stopped — New Yorker

(2) : functional activity

sets up shop as the local commissar — Time

the city shuts up shop for a week — Ray Duncan

e. : a source of supply

he's come to the wrong shop for that — Charles Dickens

3.

a. : a commercial establishment for the making or repairing of goods or machinery

blacksmith's shop

machine shop

casting shops and rolling mills — American Guide Series: Connecticut

at the San Francisco yard … one steel shop covers almost five acres — All Hands

b. obsolete : something that resembles a workshop

the liver … the shop and source of the blood — James Howell

c. : a home workshop

spends every spare minute in his shop making model airplanes

d.

(1) : a laboratory in an elementary or secondary school equipped for instruction in manual arts

the general shop may provide facilities for work in metals, electricity, and transportation — L.V.Newkirk

(2) : the art or science of working with tools and machinery

there will be one exception, perhaps … one boy out of twenty who does badly in English and well in shop — C.D.Green

made bookends for his mother as a project in shop

4.

a. : a business establishment : place of employment

print shop

especially : office

it had been a battle to get them into the shop and behind their typewriters or drawing boards before 9:30 — Advertising Age

— compare union shop

b. : a gathering place : center of activity

farmers filled the front of the shop , leaning against the bar — Sigerson Clifford

c. : job ; especially : a theatrical engagement

now she would be out of a shop all through the autumn — Leonard Merrick

d. : shoptalk

safety-conscious young men who could talk intelligent shop with any engineer in Detroit — Time

summarized a good deal of dead musical shop in smaller type — New Statesman & Nation

talk golf- shop in season and out of season — Andrew Lang

II. verb

( shopped ; shopped ; shopping ; shops )

transitive verb

1. dialect

a. : arrest , imprison

b. : to inform on : betray

she had shopped him to the police — Manchester Guardian Weekly

2. archaic : to take to market : put on sale

3.

a.

(1) : to look over (available goods or services) with an eye to purchase

shop our quality collection of … mink capes — advt

(2) : to examine the stock of

get back in time to shop the curio stores along the bay front — Holiday

(3) : buy

shop me a couple of those little … figurines — Lawrence Durrell

b. : to scan (as a newspaper) for information about available goods or services

make a habit of shopping the catalogs — F.F.Rockwell

4. : to send to a repair shop

shop a railroad car for periodic maintenance

intransitive verb

1.

a. : to examine goods and services with intent to buy

shop for groceries

shop for clothes

— compare window-shop

b. : to probe a market in search of the best buy

exhibitors were kept busy … booking orders, despite the tendency to shop on opening day — Women's Wear Daily

— usually used with around

after you've decided on a brand, shop around — there is more than one dealer for each make of car — Motor Trend

c. : to look something over

went to his gage panel and shopped over it with his eyes — Joseph Whitehill

2. : to make a search : hunt

two very similar parties each shopping for winning ideas — F.L.Allen

— often used with around

students … shopping around for something consoling to believe — Sidney Hook

III. transitive verb

: to offer for sale — often used with around

shopping the manuscript around to the smaller publishers

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.