Dictionary Definition
shop
Noun
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]
Verb
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]shopped See shop
User Contributed Dictionary
Extensive Definition
Shop may refer to:
- A retail shop or store
- An online shop
- A workshop
- A machine shop
- A paint shop
- To shop - to go to a store or stores to buy goods
- "Shop class", an industrial arts educational program
- The Shopi, a subgroup of the Bulgarians, Serbs and Macedonians
- "Shops", an essay by the Hong Kong author Xi Xi
- An abbreviation for the image editing software Adobe Photoshop or a verb describing fake imagery made with Photoshop
- An abbreviation for The Shopping Channel, a Canadian home shopping channel that uses the word "Shop" in its logo
- SHOP-process, (for Shell higher olefin process) a chemical process for the production of α-olefins
shopped in Danish: Butik
shopped in German: Shop
shopped in Japanese: 店
shopped in Norwegian Nynorsk: Butikk
shopped in Polish: sklep
shopped in Swedish: Butik