shop
Meanings
noun
- An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
- A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
- A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
- Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
- Discussion of business or professional affairs.
- A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skills.
- An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
- An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
- The collective items bought (or to be bought) on a shopping trip.
verb
- To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.
- To browse or purchase products from (a catalog, an internet website, etc.), mostly from home.
- To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
- To imprison.
- To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
- To dismiss from employment.
- To investigate or evaluate as a mystery shopper.
intj
- Used to attract the services of a shop assistant
name
- A small village in Morwenstow parish, north Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SS2214).
- A neighbourhood of St Merryn, St Merryn parish, north Cornwall (OS grid ref SW8773).
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *skup- Old English scoppa Middle English shoppe English 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). The verb is denominal. The noun senses “act of shopping”, “purchased items” are backformed from the verb.
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