Shop
Shop , imperfect
Shop , noun
[Old English shoppe, schoppe, Anglo-Saxon sceoppa a treasury, a storehouse, stall, booth; akin to scypen a shed, LG. schup a shed, German schoppen, schuppen, a shed, a coachhouse, Old High German scopf.]
1.
A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.
From shop to shop
Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks
The polished counter.
2.
A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.
A tailor called me in his shop.
3.
A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; -- sometimes in deprecation or disapproval; as, to talk shop at a party. Also used attributively, as in shop talk.
4.
(Slang) A place where any industry is carried on; as, a chemist's shop;
(Slang) any of the various places of business which are commonly called offices, as of a lawyer, doctor, broker, etc.
5.
Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc. [Slang, Chiefly English]
6.
the group of workers and the activities controlled by an administrator; as, to have five people in one's shop. [Colloquial]
Shop is often used adjectively or in composition; as, shop rent, or shop-rent; shop thief, or shop-thief; shop window, or shop-window, etc.
Collocations (2)
To smell of the shop , to indicate too distinctively one's occupation or profession.
To talk shop , to make one's business the topic of social conversation; also, to use the phrases peculiar to one's employment. [Colloquial]
Shop , intransitive verb
To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping.