shop

From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with Dutch schop (“spade, kick”), German Schuppen (“shed”), German Schober (“barn”), French échoppe (“booth, shop”) (< Germanic).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʃɒp/
• (US) enPR: shäp, IPA^(key): /ʃɑp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

shop (countable and uncountable, plural shops)

1. An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
   • 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson;  […], →OCLC:

     From shop to shop / Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks / The polished counter.

2. A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
   • c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     A tailor called me in his shop.

3. A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.

   The car's in the shop right now.

4. Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
5. (figurative, uncountable) Discussion of business or professional affairs.
   • 1917, South African Chemical Institute, Proceedings, page 28:

     What struck me about the occasion was the quiet though cheerful tone of the gathering, the restraint, noticeable also in the very few speeches. Chemistry was taboo, by common consent — no " shop " allowed.

   • 1919, Virginia Woolf, Night and Day:

     But Mary cut her short.
     "We don't allow shop at tea, Sally," she said firmly.

   • 1953, Winston Churchill, “Strain and Suspense”, in The Second World War, page 619:

     Nothing but shop was ever talked on any of these occasions. I am sure these close relationships were necessary for the conduct of the war, and I could not have grasped the whole position without them.

6. A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
7. An establishment where a barber or beautician works.

   a barber shop

8. An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.

   This is where I do my weekly shop.

9. (UK, colloquial) The collective items bought (or to be bought) on a shopping trip.

   I’ve got a big shop, so feel free to go in front.

• (establishment that sells goods): boutique, retail outlet, store (US); see also Thesaurus:retail store
• (place where things are crafted): atelier, studio, workshop
• (automobile mechanic's workplace): garage
• (workplace): office, place of work, workplace
• (wood shop): carpentry, wood shop, woodwork
• (metal shop): metal shop, metalwork, machine shop

• shoppe

shop (third-person singular simple present shops, present participle shopping, simple past and past participle shopped)

1. (intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.

   I went shopping early before the Christmas rush.

   He’s shopping for clothes.

2. (transitive) To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.).

   Shop our new arrivals.

   • 1988, Sylvia Harney, Married beyond recognition: a humorous look at marriage, page 90:

     You fantasized about having unhurried afternoons before the baby arrived to leisurely shop your favorite boutiques. Then the first crash hits — you no longer have the money to shop your favorite boutiques.

3. (transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.

   He shopped his mates in to the police.

4. (transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To imprison.
5. (transitive, Internet slang) To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
6. (transitive, slang, archaic) To dismiss from employment.

   Synonyms: fire, sack

7. (transitive, colloquial) To investigate or evaluate as a mystery shopper.
   • quoted in 1970, United States. Bureau of Employment Security, Benefit Series Service: Unemployment Insurance (page 221-7)

     A grocery clerk who, after he had been "shopped" on occasions, was discharged because he had admitted that on one occasion he had not rung up a sale immediately after the transaction, as required by the company rule, but had recorded it later when he had remembered it, held discharged, but not for misconduct connected with his work […]

   • 2001, Stuart Tannock, Youth at Work: The Unionized Fast-food and Grocery Workplace, page 50:

     Because mystery shoppers' reports are presented to employees some time (often several days) after they have "been shopped," employees may not be able to recall who the mystery shopper was, even after the fact — and, consequently, they may be unable to judge the accuracy and fairness of these reports.

• (to report a criminal to authority): grass up (slang)

• (dismiss from employment): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

shop

1. (dated) Used to attract the services of a shop assistant

• “shop”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Hosp., OHPs, PHOs, Posh, Soph, hops, hosp, phos, posh, soph

Borrowed from English shop.

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shop m (plural shops, diminutive shopje n)

1. shop

   Synonym: winkel

• koffieshop

Borrowed from English shop.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃop/, [ˈʃo̞p]

shop

1. (Anglism) Alternative form of shoppi (establishment that sells goods or services to the public).

• “shop”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔp/

shop f (plural shops)

1. (Canada, anglicism) workshop

Unadapted borrowing from English shop.

shop n (plural shopuri)

1. a small shop
2. (historical) a hard currency shop