I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bicycle shop ( also bicycle store American English )
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His dream was to own a bicycle shop.
a book shop ( also book store American English )
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I got it from that little book shop in the village.
a cake shop
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There's a very good cake shop in the market.
a charity shop (= one that gives the money it makes to a charity )
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Give your old clothes to a charity shop.
a craft shop (= selling things made by craftsmen or women )
a discount store/shop (= selling things more cheaply than other shops )
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There's a lot of competition from large discount stores.
a dress shop (= selling women’s dresses and other clothes )
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It was an expensive dress shop.
a fashion shop
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We walked around Milan’s famous fashion shops.
a fish shop
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She works in the fish shop on the High Street.
a flower shop
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He used to run a flower shop.
a gift shop
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The gift shop was well stocked with souvenirs.
a pet shop
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Your local pet shop will have a variety of different collars.
a repair shop/yard (= a place where things of a particular kind are repaired )
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He works in a shoe repair shop.
a shoe shop British English , a shoe store American English
a shopping bag
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She loaded her shopping bags into the back of the car.
a shopping basket
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She paid for the apples and put them in her shopping basket.
a shopping centre
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They are building a huge new shopping centre just outside the town.
a shopping complex
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Some old buildings were pulled down to make space for a new shopping complex.
a shopping district
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The bomb exploded in a crowded shopping district.
a shopping expedition (= when you go shopping )
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I took Mary and the kids on a shopping expedition into Manchester.
a shopping list (= a list of things you want to buy )
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a Christmas shopping list
a shopping street British English (= with a lot of shops )
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This is one of Europe’s most elegant shopping streets.
a shopping/fishing/skiing etc trip
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He was knocked off his bicycle on his way home from a shopping trip.
a shop/store window
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She looked in shop windows.
an exclusive shop ( also an exclusive store American English )
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I walked along Bond Street, past all the exclusive shops.
antique shop
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They bought the clock at an antique shop in Bath.
betting shop
body shop
bucket shop
charity shop
chip shop
Christmas shopping (= for presents for people )
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Have you done your Christmas shopping yet?
closed shop
coffee shop
consignment shop
cop shop
corner shop
do the shopping/cleaning/ironing/cooking etc
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Who does the cooking in your family?
gift shop
go shopping/swimming/skiing etc
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I need to go shopping this afternoon.
high street banks/shops/stores etc
Internet shopping/banking
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The new regulations will increase customer confidence in Internet shopping.
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Internet banking saves customers a lot of time.
junk shop
machine shop
paper shop
retail outlet/shop/store/chain
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We are looking for more retail outlets for our products.
secondhand store/shop etc (= a shop that sells second-hand things )
sex shop
shop assistant
shop floor
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The chairwoman started her working life on the shop floor.
shop front
shop steward
shop talk
shopping bag
shopping basket
shopping cart
shopping centre
shopping list
shopping mall
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a huge new shopping mall
shopping mall
shopping precinct
shopping spree
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a shopping spree
shopping trolley
souvenir shop
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a souvenir shop
talking shop
tea shop
the village hall/school/shop/church
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A meeting will be held at the village hall on Tuesday.
thrift shop
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
antique
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First I had to pass the antique shop where Mr Rutherford resided.
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I just want to look into that antique shop .
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Mr Barker had intended to sell the goods in the antique shop he runs with his wife.
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There were almost more antique and second-hand shops in some of those villages than there were houses.
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The atmosphere is that of a village with antique shops , delightful pubs, tea shops and bistros.
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Her Sloane Street shop was between an antique shop and a florist's.
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They rely on buying their sickles from antique shops and jumble sales.
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They both love browsing in antique shops wherever they happen to be visiting, and appreciate good quality modern and reproduction designs.
betting
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The compact circuit, purpose-built with the betting shop service in mind, has surprised owners Ladbrokes with its robust evening trade.
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Once I'd scrawled for a betting shop on Priory Hill.
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Most of the Powis Square mob frequented a particular betting shop where their noisy ways were tolerated.
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The many village shops have closed and reopened as video or betting shops, or estate agents.
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I hit the betting shop and lose dough perched on a stool.
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Bookmakers say they should handle the betting tax rebate as the money comes from their betting shops .
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The offence in s.3 will not be committed by an accused who walks away from a betting shop or brothel.
closed
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This was not so easy at that time as the crewing arrangements were very much of a closed shop .
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It was the last closed shop in Britain, he said, and it had to go.
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The closed shop: Mr Fowler said the legislation would guarantee people the freedom to decide whether or not to join a union.
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The production unions' success had various causes, including an effective closed shop and weak newspaper managements.
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Therefore, your club must not be a closed shop .
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The closed shop and the wildcat strike have undermined the legitimacy of modern trade unionism.
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Their purpose was to weaken the closed shop and to outlaw secondary picketing.
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Only one firm in two now bargains with unions, compared with two-thirds then. Closed shops have been outlawed.
local
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Nomatterwhat help or advice you need, call in or phone your local shop .
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Admission is $ 4, with a $ 1 discount coupon available at local camera shops .
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Between a small, local shop where there is likely to be less security, and a large supermarket or department store?
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But Garcia said the 26 or 28 weapons confiscated were purchased in local gun shops and registered in his name.
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You should browse in your local art shop .
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Competition rules and regulations available from your Local Radio Rentals shop .
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Your local pet shop is likely to have a variety of different collars available.
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My local art shop had no idea and none of the books I have read so far give any advice.
pet
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She was uneasy about going to the pet shop .
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Packets are available at gyms, athletic stores and pet shops throughout Tucson, or by calling 647-7572.
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This is sold, alongside Omega cat food, through specialist outlets such as pet shops , garden centres and agricultural merchants.
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We went to three pet shops before we found a pair of gray Brussels griffons.
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Suitable designs which clip together are available especially from larger pet shops .
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Frozen adult brine shrimp have been on the market for quite some time and are available through almost any pet shop .
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Your local pet shop is likely to have a variety of different collars available.
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You can obtain suitable tablets for this from your vet and most pet shops .
retail
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A paved plaza at the Third Street entrance, near on-campus retail shops .
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Here there are famous department stores, fashion shops , retail shops with high quality goods, confectioners and pavement cafes.
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The third opportunity is offered by Cristina, a Brasov businesswoman with her own workshop and retail shop .
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A good third of the stock of any hardware retail shop in Nairobi is now derived from this source.
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The main delivery journeys to the retail shops had all been done by Fridays.
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The plan calls for a three-story, 42-unit apartment complex that would also include retail shops .
toy
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The toy shop was one huge playroom where everything was owned in common.
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They sell them in the toy shop down the road.
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They escaped from the toy shop , and went to live in the market building, in the middle of the square.
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The scissors have stainless steel blades and retail at £1.99 in department stores and toy shops .
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I was like a kid in a toy shop .
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She craved cuddles and kisses; she was given a catalogue from Hamley's toy shop .
■ NOUN
assistant
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She found she was short-tempered with shop assistants , angry if something she had ordered failed to arrive on the appointed date.
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She remembered his tetchiness with shop assistants , which presumably had been simulated.
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The expression of the shop assistant was making her most uncomfortable.
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Dress shop assistants grow supercilious, aware that they can uplift or slay us with a single comment.
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He stabbed the shop assistant at least six times with a knife.
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The shop assistant watched them curiously from behind the old-fashioned mahogany counter; you never knew what to make of these foreigners.
charity
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Clothes and bric-a-brac have been pouring into the hospice's charity shops in response to an appeal for more goods.
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Members of the town's hospice movement say trade has fallen dramatically at their charity shop .
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All the outfits on the catwalk were made up from clothes donated to its charity shops .
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One sign: when Seattle started to charge citizens by the bagful, charity shops found their doorsteps knee-deep in unwanted gifts.
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When family charity fails to clothe you, try a charity shop .
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For the last year, charity shops have had to cut back the number of toys they sell drastically because of new legislation.
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But for a sudden, necessary purchase, it is worth scouring the charity shops at any season.
chip
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It was half a mile to the chip shop , so you had to get a head start.
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Enroute to the Blood Kit, the chip shop even sold pineapple rings.
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The nearest centre with camping, chip shops , pubs etc is St Just, five miles south down the B3306.
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The violence began outside a chip shop when rival gangs clashed.
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Or is Mary's a chip shop ?
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It seemed inevitable after this that he should take himself to the nearest fish and chip shop to eat his supper.
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The worst pollution is at sites near outlets from industrial potato washing units and fish and chip shops .
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More than once I had gone down to the phone outside the chip shop at Annick Water.
coffee
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I was working in a coffee shop not far from here.
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It has sprouted shopping malls, discos and nightclubs, beauty salons, gymnasia, news kiosks, coffee shops.
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Finally the two women refused to fill out any more grant applications with him in coffee shops and on the street.
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I went into the Cookery coffee shop .
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She wants to open a coffee shop next door.
corner
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At 5 or 6 years ò Trust them to go to the corner shop to buy milk or a paper.
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Proactive job search Perhaps as a child you were sent with a list to the corner shop .
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In Burnley Wood, a mob of white youths surrounded Amit Stores, a corner shop near the working men's club.
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The residents go to the pub, the local corner shop , the club and they go and play bingo.
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Tucker's was a corner shop on Hoomey's way home.
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Here he is with his hands full after a buying spree in a corner shop .
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Small corner shops shut as she approached them.
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Willie recognized Mr Miller from the corner shop and the young man behind the mesh in the Post Office.
floor
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I believe any young graduate would get an awful lot of value from working with people on the shop floor .
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Traditional craft know-how was being reduced to scientific data and passing from workman to manager, from shop floor to front office.
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Willis described the elements of the culture of the shop floor as being hinged around the execution of hard work.
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Of course, we also provide practical project management training from the shop floor up.
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They were, in fact, star workers whose performance on the shop floor was being rewarded with a weekend in paradise.
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Staff working in the office, on the shop floor and in the warehouse may well communicate via the internal telephone system.
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On the shop floor Sometimes goods are delivered direct to the shop floor without having been priced.
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The 3 expert systems then developed have remained in use on the shop floor since the end of the trial.
front
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In the courtyard of the family home, on the road and in shop fronts , people chatted, smoked, gossiped.
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The stalls had disappeared, the shop fronts were boarded up.
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A freshly painted shop front with shining glass and a window full of bottles.
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The streets were jammed tight with narrow shop fronts and grimy cafés.
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Attracting 600,000 visitors a year, the village is littered with ugly shop fronts and tacky signs.
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Across the streets whole shop fronts lay in a mangled mess.
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Paint was peeling from the shop fronts , some premises were derelict.
gift
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Shops A gift shop and children's shop are situated just off the main car park.
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Springer says the exhibition area will not include a museum, theater or gift shop .
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There also is a gift shop and restaurant.
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Aviary, children's play area, gift shop and tea rooms.
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Sunday morning, Rice was in a hotel gift shop .
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Refreshment facilities, restaurant, picnic areas and gift shop .
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Tickets are $ 10, available at the Flandrau gift shop .
junk
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I'd carried it back from a local junk shop .
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Liverpool gets scruffier every day, with junk shops springing up all over.
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Old deal or pine kitchen chairs can be picked up reasonably in junk shops and painted or stained.
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Doyle was just climbing out of the shattered window of the junk shop .
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So Rita scoured junk shops for second-hand pieces to fill the rooms.
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Recently I opened a cupboard in a junk shop and there, sure enough, was a skeleton, swinging.
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Careful searching through old junk shops and around antique markets may well produce endless ideas and inspiration from which you can work.
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Explore junk shops and markets for costume pearls and earrings to recreate this expensive look.
machine
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Jan Fischer produced a transporter that might well have come from a professional machine shop .
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Soon the machine shop was running on two shifts, day and night.
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But the quickest way to the foundry is through the machine shop , especially in this weather.
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It was the elder Gough who founded the Marin Weightlifting Club and relocated it to the vacant machine shop in 1990.
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The machine shop was an enormous shed with machines and work benches laid out in a grid pattern.
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The machine shop left hundreds of thousands of men with shared memories: The whirring and flapping of the belts.
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At the time, George Jennings was running a machine shop .
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But give labor anything it wants, even a lousy ten-man machine shop , and every drop of it is blood.
shoe
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Next door was a shoe shop .
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The shoe shop next door is bought out by a firm of metal welders.
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My husband works in a shoe shop .
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I am sad to see that one of my favourite landmarks, R. Soles the shoe shop , has closed down.
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Their father had a large shoe shop in the town.
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I was out with my children when we passed a shoe shop with some wellington boots outside.
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Dekko Moore was a cousin of Paccy Moore's in the shoe shop .
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He never thought I was fit to run a shoe shop .
souvenir
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The first objective is the provision of a new souvenir shop , refreshment room and booking office.
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The streets around the Plaza are filled with boutiques, galleries, restaurants and souvenir shops .
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For those last minute Mickey Mouse presents for home there is also a mini-market and souvenir shop .
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Several small restaurants at the swimming area serve full meals and cold beer. Souvenir shops abound.
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Gift and Book Shop A packed souvenir shop full of interesting and unusual gifts and informative and entertaining books.
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The extension would provide space for offices, cloakrooms, a souvenir shop and bookshop, the library and temporary exhibitions.
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I found myself in a smart town square surrounded by glittering bars, hotels and souvenir shops .
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There is also a shire horse souvenir shop .
steward
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He says that shop stewards will want to talk to managment again.
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Not long ago, I was in a nasty argument with a shop steward .
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The exchange is purely ritual in function, authorizing Bert Braddock to reassure anxious shop stewards if they start asking awkward questions.
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Remember, this is an election for shop steward .
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Problems faced by part-time women shop stewards were researched by this same group of men.
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Although shop stewards held a meeting yesterday, union organisers had not been informed officially of the authority's move.
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The hon. Gentleman will be aware that I have discussed the frigate orders with the shop stewards .
tea
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The tea shop was next door to one of Sara's branches.
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I sat in a tea shop .
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The atmosphere is that of a village with antique shops , delightful pubs, tea shops and bistros.
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I went into a tea shop and ordered a pot of tea and a little cake in fluted white paper.
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Since the 1930s, it has served as both a tea shop and now a restaurant.
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And this tea shop closed its doors and sent the staff home.
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I would bike to the tea shop in the High Street and see what blends they had.
village
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Once they talked of it in the village shop , the whole village would know by nightfall.
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DivaIi, the festival of lights, would soon be upon us and the village shops were stocked up with fireworks.
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Village information scheme for Exmoor Exmoor National Park has decided to set up information agencies in selected village shops .
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There was the pretty girl from the village shop wearing an emerald-green dress more suited to a wedding.
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Everyone was hungry, but there was no food to be had for it had floated out of the village shop and away.
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Now she had pulled up outside the village shop and was yelling to them to bring her out an ice-cream.
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The many village shops have closed and reopened as video or betting shops, or estate agents.
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Probably she went into the Fir Tree or the village shop to get change for those calls.
window
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I will never forget, the shop windows were dressed beautifully with mauve velvet.
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A priced article in a shop window is not an offer, simply an invitation to negotiate.
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Again they were foiled - this time by a security cage lining the shop window .
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Alison Edwards suffered three deep cuts in her face when she accidentally fell through a shop window .
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The lighted shop windows threw a bleak illumination on to the empty pavements.
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The display in the shop window was an extravagant scenario designed to showcase a monster train set.
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One or two of the shop windows nearby were lacking glass, while others had a white star painted on them.
■ VERB
buy
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Flour is ground at the mill and can be bought form the mill shop .
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Within a short time his business became so successful he bought the shop where he had worked without pay.
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I made my way back to Chelsea only too aware that I had no intention of buying a shop in the terrace.
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He renovated the place and made it so successful that he also bought the second shop where he had worked!
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While these miners are working they buy in the shops and that keeps others in work.
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Finally the Ashleys decided to combat the problem of non-paying wholesale customers by themselves buying a London shop .
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He and his wife Joy bought a small antique shop in nearby Chipping Norton.
close
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Mr Evans closed the shop for an extra half hour and brought out a bottle of sherry.
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And retailers, caught betwixt the two, were perplexed and losing money, if not closing up shop for good.
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Arthur Davidson has closed his London antique shop of that name under pressure of mounting debt.
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Ezra hurried by the closed shops toward the river; back along Canal Street to the Hotel Rehoboth.
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At lunch-time she closed the shop for an hour or longer, and shut up at five-thirty.
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It was at ten minutes to nine when she decided to close up the shop .
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Surely they must be about to close the bomb shop down.
open
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He is thinking of opening a small shop .
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He opens a surfer shop in Ames, Iowa, right down the street from the tractor repair shop.
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The company had opened a record fifteen shops in 1978 bringing its total to over seventy outlets worldwide.
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He had just bought a sewing machine in Warsaw and he intended to open his own shop in their small town.
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Shortly after opening their shop in 1986, Beth was told that she had cancer.
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He opened a flower shop but spends most of his time working as a delivery boy.
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Cop shop: Police have opened their own cop shop at Darlington police station to sell personal attack alarms and security devices.
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She wants to open a coffee shop next door.
run
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Have you noticed how every bookstore seems to run a coffee shop ?
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Mary Lowther, a fruiterer who runs a shop in Skinnergate.
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Probably running a repair shop by now Or somebody's fleet.
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His wife still runs a sweet shop in Buckinghamshire.
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A third brother, Ben, runs the farm shop .
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Miss Asher also runs her own cake shop , which she opened three years ago in Chelsea.
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One ran a cooked-meat shop and dining-room; another specialized in funeral teas.
sell
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The trendy logos mean they can sell in shops for up to £50 apiece; but looks can be deceptive.
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They can press up their own records and sell them through local shops and radio.
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What they did not need, they sold to the shops and markets for resale to the public.
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He sold the shop , of which he was the owner by then, and moved into ffeatherstonehaugh's as a resident.
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He had carved figures which sold in the shops in Salzburg, but he had never set foot on a farm.
set
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Early registration figures are also said to be disappointing for the banks and building societies which have set up share shops .
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NxtWave opted not to set up shop in Silicon Valley and instead chose Langhorne.
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She set up the shop in 1990 with the intention of selling yarn, patterns and accessories.
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Caffino is also in the process of getting city permits to set up shop in suburban areas of Boston and Chicago.
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It recently undertook such a project for a major oil company which was setting up shop in Moscow.
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Wade Smith was given salesman of the year in January and promptly left to set up shop on his own.
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The Barrio Grill originally set up shop just over a year ago.
shut
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It's not like being on shore where once the patients are gone you shut up shop and go home.
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But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession, traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes.
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Keith Rodwell, Ipswich Witches' commercial manager, shuts up shop after last night's match with Wolverhampton was rained off.
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Time to shut up shop and get to know each other again.
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We might just as well shut up shop .
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They need ways of shutting up shop , or at least of enduring, when conditions are simply impossible.
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I think we should shut up shop , if you don't mind.
visit
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It's been a pleasure visiting your shop .
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Near Medicine Bow, Wyoming, I visited a rock shop made entirely of fossilized dinosaur bones.
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But we never visit her shop and she knows why.
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As a young boy, he visited the shop most Fridays and helped serve customers.
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In addition to car boot sales, officers had visited shops selling tobacco and drink.
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Bunting had visited the shop 24 hours earlier.
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Yesterday Charles visited a ginseng shop in the trading district of Nam Pak Hong.
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Two thirds of those questioned said that they would visit a betting shop in the evening.
work
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They work in shops , offices, building societies and banks.
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He was working in an upholstery shop when a wrestler came in to get a leather mask repaired.
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My husband works in a shoe shop .
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I worked in shops back home where I was manager.
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Tony did not want to work in a shop or a factory.
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Everybody working in the shop must know how to cook.
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What about working in a shop ?
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She worked in a shop selling chocolates.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
close up shop
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Finnegan's Bar is closing up shop after 35 years.
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Some of the big ad agencies close up shop early for the holidays.
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A few companies closed up shop in California.
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And retailers, caught betwixt the two, were perplexed and losing money, if not closing up shop for good.
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At one stage, he considered closing up shop for good.
factory girl/shop girl/office girl
go down the shops/club/park etc
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We went down the shops on Saturdays.
hit the shops/streets
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But after the officer leaves, Michael grabs his sleeping bag and hits the streets.
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Equipped with such information, I decided it was time to hit the streets.
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Laid-off workers are hitting the streets.
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Meanwhile, his book, Black Coffee Blues, is due to hit the shops in mid-December.
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She told me to hit the streets with the canvas bag and start ringing doorbells the instant school was out next day.
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The newspaper has had $ 29 million in losses since it hit the streets on Jan. 10, 1994.
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The service is currently in beta testing and should hit the streets in the first quarter of next year.
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When the idea hit the streets, we at Guitarist were unanimous in wanting to throw our weight behind the project.
like a bull in a china shop
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Politically, he often behaved like a bull in a china shop.
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You're not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop again?
mind the shop
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Carrie had been minding the shop.
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Emily and Maudie can mind the shop quite well without me, so I can look after Josh and the boys.
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I have to mind the shop here.
mobile library/shop/clinic etc
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A mobile library visits once a fortnight.
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A ferocious sandstorm overturned a mobile library.
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A tent will not be a building, nor will a phone kiosk or a mobile shop.
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In some remoter villages mobile shops play an important role, but these rarely create jobs in these villages themselves.
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The dry cleaner delivers, mobile clinics come to you.
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We have a mobile clinic for them with eight centres. 1 want to start a colony for them.
one-stop shop/store etc
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Intuit is now aiming to become a one-stop shopping source for anyone looking to do home banking.
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Once combined, the companies hope to provide one-stop shopping-all of their services to customers on one bill.
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The attraction to consumers, Schneider said, would be one-stop shopping and possibly extra services.
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The companies' will explore ways to provide one-stop shopping for utilities that want to automate many of their business functions.
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The opening would give many franchisers their first permanent showrooms and allow for one-stop shopping by potential franchisees.
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Their goal is to become the one-stop shopping mall of cyberspace.
shut up shop
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But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession, traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes.
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I think we should shut up shop, if you don't mind.
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It's not like being on shore where once the patients are gone you shut up shop and go home.
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Keith Rodwell, Ipswich Witches' commercial manager, shuts up shop after last night's match with Wolverhampton was rained off.
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They need ways of shutting up shop, or at least of enduring, when conditions are simply impossible.
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Time to shut up shop and get to know each other again.
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We might just as well shut up shop.
talk shop
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And remember that everyone of it is of your own kind, some one with whom you can talk shop.
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Andy the Mouse got pretty manic and spent half an hour talking shop with a Mickey.
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At the moment the annual summit is little more than an expensive talking shop.
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The Commonwealth is simply a talking shop.
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This would enable a tough general manager to ensure that medical audit did not become simply a talk shop or token activity.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a card shop
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a new health food shop
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After assembly, the cars go to the paint shop to be painted.
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Could you run down to the shop and get me some cigarettes?
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I asked in my local record shop but they couldn't help me.
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I got it from the secondhand furniture shop .
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Our car's still in the shop .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All that thrives are thrift shops.
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Doyle was looking at the shop which sold oriental bits and pieces.
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Of course, we also provide practical project management training from the shop floor up.
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Packets are available at gyms, athletic stores and pet shops throughout Tucson, or by calling 647-7572.
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Record shops had replaced the local cobbler, and Dolcis had given way to Mary Quant.
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Shopkeepers and their families were seldom seen outside their shops.
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Surplus radio and electronics shops are another source.
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The smith's shop where my father worked was reached through a doorway at the right of the carpenter's shop.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
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If these appear dullish, it could pay to shop around .
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Thus far, the trade wires have been quiet as general managers shop around for the best deals.
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Our main 1979 survey suggested that weekly-collection credit users do not shop around for bargains as much as others.
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Owners shop around for a new-stadium deal.
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The thinking seems to be that many savers are too ignorant or lazy to shop around .
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It is well worthwhile getting plenty of advice and shopping around .
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Chances are, you can match any Houston rate if you take the time and effort to shop around your own city.
home
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Home shopping as a whole accounts for only 3% of retail spending.
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Interactive catalogs are the customized interface to consumer applications such as home shopping .
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Home shopping alone has spent £35 million over the past five years putting in computer systems.
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Broadband services will include video-on-demand, home shopping , banking and network games, he said.
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For instance, look at the success of on-line chat services and home shopping channels.
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A: I think people will see the Internet as an excellent way to do home shopping .
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christmas
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Have you finished your Christmas shopping or have you yet to begin?
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Feeley was shown at a press briefing saying it was just some early Christmas shopping .
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Not Christmas shopping time already, is it?
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Avoid the hustle and bustle of high street Christmas shopping .
comparison
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Whether they're called comparison engines, shopping , or bargains finders, they more or less do the same thing.
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If people were to live by comparison shopping , the town would go bust.
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Shop with ease, comparison price shopping .
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Finally, do some comparison shopping and a price / benefit analysis.
consumer
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Increasingly price-conscious consumers are shopping less at department stores and more at discount stores and general merchandise stores.
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Changing consumer shopping patterns and lack of food management skills at the company subsequently led to below-expected results.
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At these large markets, although they purchased from many different retailers, consumers could shop for all their food needs.
customer
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A spokesman said that customers could carry on shopping as normal.
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Beaty recalls one customer shopping for a package deal: a mountain bike and a sedan.
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A customer who shops regularly at one retail outlet will get to know where the items she normally buys are displayed.
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And booksellers should open across trading hours which match when customers want to shop - including Sundays.
grocery
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The group already operates a successful online grocery shopping service through its Waitrose supermarket chain.
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Metro Food Markets, a chain with 12 stores in the Baltimore area, plans to introduce on-line grocery shopping this fall.
place
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It is a good place to shop in still.
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With handy offers like a free performance analysis on your site, TrustWise is an excellent place to go certificate shopping .
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This was the premiere place for Angelenos to shop even through the 1960s.
supermarket
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Food Giant claims we're all spending far more than we need to when we shop at the well-known supermarkets .
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He shops in the supermarket like anyone else, he carries out the garbage, shovels the snow off the sidewalk.
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If none of these options are open to you, then shopping at a large supermarket is probably the best solution.
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Imagine that you are shopping at your local supermarket .
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go
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And if she was staying she had to go shopping for groceries.
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Take an extra exercise class. Go shopping .
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Where do pixies and elves go shopping ?
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I got to go shopping with the wardrobe people at the beginning of the season.
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The 15-year-old asks if he can go off shopping on his own for a few hours.
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When the going gets tough, the tough allegedly go shopping , and into debt.
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The next day, Saturday, we go shopping .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crying/shopping/talking etc jag
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I had an incredible crying jag .
do the shopping
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I did all my shopping yesterday.
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On Saturdays we usually do the shopping and clean the house.
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She sent her husband out to do the week's shopping .
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We need to go grocery shopping - do you have the check book?
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But then, Harriet with her fair-haired plaits and smooth round forehead jiggling off to help Mummy do the shopping .
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Husbands can easily get out of touch with the cost of living unless they do the shopping regularly and see the bills.
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It is good for me to get out and do the shopping .
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Jane would light the fire, turn the heating on, put the horses and donkey out and do the shopping .
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Our sick ones received their injections, then off we went to do the shopping .
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While I do the shopping , Miles sits near the checkout counter reading.
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With Chancellor at the wheel, they had left enfamille to do the shopping .
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With Ivy and Ken she would take a weekly trip into Aberdeen or Banchory to do the shopping .
factory girl/shop girl/office girl
like a bull in a china shop
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Politically, he often behaved like a bull in a china shop.
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You're not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop again?
mobile library/shop/clinic etc
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A mobile library visits once a fortnight.
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A ferocious sandstorm overturned a mobile library.
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A tent will not be a building, nor will a phone kiosk or a mobile shop.
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In some remoter villages mobile shops play an important role, but these rarely create jobs in these villages themselves.
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The dry cleaner delivers, mobile clinics come to you.
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We have a mobile clinic for them with eight centres. 1 want to start a colony for them.
one-stop shop/store etc
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Intuit is now aiming to become a one-stop shopping source for anyone looking to do home banking.
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Once combined, the companies hope to provide one-stop shopping-all of their services to customers on one bill.
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The attraction to consumers, Schneider said, would be one-stop shopping and possibly extra services.
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The companies' will explore ways to provide one-stop shopping for utilities that want to automate many of their business functions.
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The opening would give many franchisers their first permanent showrooms and allow for one-stop shopping by potential franchisees.
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Their goal is to become the one-stop shopping mall of cyberspace.
shopping/pedestrian precinct
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Continue through Headington shopping precinct until reaching Windmill Road traffic lights, turn right and continue until the roundabout.
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For a modern, purpose-built resort it is surprisingly attractive, with its wood-clad buildings and cobbled shopping precincts .
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However, most cities now have some car-free space in the form of arcades, converted streets or purpose-built pedestrian precincts .
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James was found dead beside a railway line in Liverpool after disappearing from a shopping precinct in Bootle last month.
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The life of a new shopping precinct may be no more than twenty years.
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The shopping precinct is full of teenagers gathered in small clusters, smoking, gossiping, laughing, scuffling.
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The two-year-old disappeared 11 days ago from Bootle's Strand shopping precinct .
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They are usually found in town centres and shopping precincts .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I usually shop at Safeway. It's just around the corner from my house.
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When she moved here, she had never shopped in a supermarket before.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I cleaned the house, shopped, washed and cooked.
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If you are shopping, stop outside the shop and go over the rules and consequences.
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Take time to shop around; get to know your local wine merchant or investigate your local supermarket.