Shop

Noun

 * 1) An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
 * 2) A place where things are crafted; a workshop or hobbyshop.
 * 3) An automobile mechanic's workplace.
 * 4) Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
 * 5) Short for wood shop or metal shop, classes taught typically in junior high school, teaching vocational skill.
 * 6) In information technology, describes the programming languages or software an organisation uses, usually exclusively; "our company is mostly a Java shop".

Verb

 * 1)  To visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something.
 * 2)  To report the criminal or otherwise wrong activities or whereabouts of (a suspect) to an authority.
 * 3)  Shorthand for photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.

Interjection
shop!


 * 1) Used to attract the services of a shop assistant

Adjectives for Shop
endless; exclusive; garish; desolate; filth-strewn; multiple (pi); inviting; showy; decent; dull; dingy; discriminating; intrepid; out-of-the-way; glittering; fashionable; specialty; matrimonial; dirty.

Verbs for Shop
clutter up—; enlarge—; equip—; line—; loot—; man—; patronize—; support—; — accommodates; —adjusts; —caters to; — dispenses; —disposes of; —expands; —furnishes; —offers; —prospers; —purveys; — flourishes; —pledges; —retails; —stocks; — thrives; —undersells; —vends.

Adverbs for Shop
voraciously; meticulously; tirelessly; fashionably; daily; gregariously; industriously; enthusiastically; vigorously; insensately.

Synonyms

 * boutique, retail outlet, store 🇺🇸; see also Thesaurus:retail store
 * : atelier, studio, workshop
 * : garage
 * : office, place of work, workplace
 * : carpentry, wood shop, woodwork
 * : metal shop, metalwork

Related terms

 * shoppe

Derived terms

 * beauty shop
 * bucket shop
 * charity shop
 * chip shop
 * close up shop
 * coffee shop
 * cop shop
 * corner shop
 * food shop
 * gift shop
 * like a bull in a china shop
 * one-stop shop
 * op shop
 * pawn shop
 * pet shop
 * Photoshop&reg;
 * pound shop
 * repair shop
 * sex shop
 * shoe shop


 * shopaholic
 * shop assistant
 * shopfloor
 * shopfront
 * shopgirl
 * shopkeep
 * shopkeeper
 * shopman
 * shop right
 * shop steward
 * shop talk
 * shopward
 * shopwards
 * shopworn
 * shut up shop
 * swap shop
 * sweet shop, sweet-shop, sweetshop
 * wood shop
 * workshop
 * shop around
 * shopper
 * shop till you drop
 * window shopping

Thesaurus
store, studio, study, supermarket, sweatshop, ticket office, trading post, variety shop, variety store, warehouse, wareroom, wholesale house, window-shop, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable, agency, atelier, barbershop, beauty parlor, beauty shop, bench, betray, booking office, boutique, box office, branch, branch office, browse, butcher shop, buy, cabinet, chain store, chambers, chancellery, chancery, closet, co-op, company, concern, concession, consulate, cooperative, corporate headquarters, corporation, countinghouse, country store, den, department store, desk, dime store, discount house, discount store, embassy, emporium, establishment, executive office, facility, firm, five-and-ten, general store, go marketing, go shopping, headquarters, home office, house, inform against, inform on, installation, institution, legation, loft, look for, magasin, mail-order house, main office, market, mart, office, organization, outlet, parlor, post, purchase, research, retail store, salon, seek, showroom, snitch on,

Etymology
From shoppe:, from  sceoppa:

Noun

 * Afrikaans: winkel
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: دكان, متجر,  ,
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: mağaza, dükan
 * Basque:, saltoki
 * Belarusian: крама, магазін
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: stal, stalioù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: botiga, tenda
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian:, kauplus
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Greenlandic:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido: butiko
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: boteca
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, 商店
 * Kamba:


 * Khmer: ហាង
 * Kikuyu:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: veikals
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luhya:
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Malay: kedai
 * Maltese: ħanut
 * Manx:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Persian:, مغازه
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, (antiquated.)
 * Santali:
 * Scottish Gaelic: bùth
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: продавница, дућан
 * Roman: prodavnica, dućan
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: lebenkele
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, , ,
 * Taos: tį̀ęndo’óna
 * Tetum: loja, toko
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, , mağaza
 * Ukrainian: крамниця,
 * Urdu: ,
 * Vietnamese: cửa hàng
 * Volapük: selidöp
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: קראָם, געשעפֿט, געװעלב, קלײט


 * Basque: lantegi, lantoki
 * Breton: stal-labour
 * Cornish:
 * Croatian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Greek: εργαστήριο, συνεργείο
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: работилница,
 * Maltese: ħanut
 * Persian:
 * Polish: warsztat
 * Russian:
 * Urdu: ,


 * Finnish:, ,  metallityö


 * Norwegian:

Verb

 * Arabic: تسوق, تبضع
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 買東西, 买东西
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: winkelen, inkopen doen, shoppen
 * Finnish: käydä kaupassa, shoppailla
 * French: faire les magasins, faire du shopping, faire des courses, faire des achats
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: andare per negozi


 * Japanese: 買い物をする
 * Macedonian: пазари,
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish: kupować, robić zakupy
 * Portuguese: ir às compras
 * Romanian: merge la cumpărături
 * Russian: делать покупки,
 * Slovene: nakupovati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: handla (1), shoppa (1)
 * Ukrainian: ходити до крамниць (χodýty do kramnýts’)
 * Vietnamese: đi mua hàng

Anagrams

 * hops
 * hosp
 * OHPs
 * posh
 * soph