shop

a retail store, especially a small one.

a small store or department in a large store selling a specific or select type of goods.

the ski shop at Smith's.

the workshop of a craftsperson or artisan.

the workshop of a person who works in a manual trade; place for doing specific, skilled manual work.

a carpenter's shop.

any factory, office, or business.

Our ad agency is a well-run shop.

Education.

1. a course of instruction in a trade, as carpentry, printing, etc., consisting chiefly of training in the use of its tools and materials.

2. a classroom in which such a course is given.

one's trade, profession, or business as a subject of conversation or preoccupation.

to visit shops and stores for purchasing or examining goods.

to seek or examine goods, property, etc., offered for sale.

Retail merchants often stock their stores by shopping in New York.

to seek a bargain, investment, service, etc. (usually followed byfor ).

I'm shopping for a safe investment that pays good interest.

to seek or examine goods, property, etc., offered for sale in or by.

She's shopping the shoe stores this afternoon.

Chiefly British Informal.

1. to put into prison; jail.

2. to behave treacherously toward; inform on; betray.

Slang. to try to sell (merchandise or a project) in an attempt to obtain an order or contract.

a place, esp a small building, for the retail sale of goods and services

an act or instance of shopping, esp household shopping

the weekly shop

a place for the performance of a specified type of work; workshop

informal

1. in disarray

   his papers were all over the shop

2. in every direction

   I've searched for it all over the shop

1. to close business at the end of the day or permanently

2. to become defensive or inactive

to speak about one's work, esp when meeting socially, sometimes with the effect of excluding those not similarly employed