shop

Meaning

1. An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
2. A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
3. A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
4. Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
5. Discussion of business or professional affairs.
6. A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skills.
7. An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
8. An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
9. (colloquial) The collective items bought (or to be bought) on a shopping trip.

store

go shopping

buy at

shop at

shop class

business firm

denounce

shop for

shop front

selling place

small shed

computer installation

commercial unit

go and buy

computer station

buy things

business house

manual training

repair shop

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃɒp/

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).