Shop I Selection Local Building People Things Work

• to open/close/run a shop
• there's a good selection of local shops.
• a record/pet shop
• a shoe shop

shop

1. a building or part of a building where you can buy goods or services
• SEE ALSO betting shop
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/betting-shop
• to open/close/run a shop
• There's a good selection of local shops.
• a record/pet shop
• a shoe shop
• a butcher’s shop
• a butcher shop
• I'm just going to the shops. Can I get you anything?
• She works in a shop in the town centre.
• He was alone in the shop when the robber came in.
• shop owners in the area

Extra Examples

• I went around all the shops but I couldn't find a present for him.
• Mobile shops are invaluable to people in rural areas.
• She opened a flower shop in the High Street.
• She works part-time in a shop.
• The brothers opened a chain of electrical shops in the eighties.
• The post office is at the end of the row of shops.
• The shop offers a large selection of leather goods at reasonable prices.
• Your local pet shop should stock a variety of different collars.
2. a place where things are made or repaired, especially part of a factory where a particular type of work is done
• SEE ALSO body shop
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/body-shop
• a repair shop
• a paint shop (= where cars or other items are painted)
3. an act of going shopping, especially for food and other items needed in the house
• I do a weekly shop at the supermarket.
4. a school subject in which students learn to make things from wood and metal using tools and machines
5. a room in a house where tools are kept for making repairs to the house, building things out of wood, etc.
6. everywhere
• New restaurants are appearing all over the shop.
7. not neat or tidy; not well organized
• Your calculations are all over the shop (= completely wrong).
8. a person who is careless, or who moves or acts in a rough way, in a place or situation where skill and care are needed
• You’re not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop, are you?
9. to stop trading
• The factory closed its doors for the last time in 2009.
• The company closed shop and left the US last year.
10. to be in charge of something for a short time while somebody is away
• Who's minding the shop while the boss is abroad?
11. to start a business
• an area where many artists have set up shop
• Some buskers had set up shop outside the station.
12. to close a business permanently or to stop working for the day
13. to talk about your work with the people you work with, especially when you are also with other people who are not connected with or interested in it
• Whenever we meet up with Clive and Sue they always end up talking shop.

Word Origin

• Middle English: shortening of Old French eschoppe ‘lean-to booth’, of West Germanic origin; related to German Schopf ‘porch’ and English dialect shippon ‘cattle shed’. The verb is first recorded (mid 16th cent.) in the sense ‘imprison’ (from an obsolete slang use of the noun for ‘prison’), which led to sense (3).