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SHOPPING

shop·ping [shop-ing]

–noun

  • the act of a person who shops.
  • the facilities or merchandise available to those who shop: Chicago has good shopping.

    • –adjective

  • of, for, or pertaining to examining and buying merchandise: a shopping trip.

    • Origin:
    1755–65; shop + -ing

    SHOP

    shop [shop] noun, verb, shopped, shop·ping, interjection

    –noun

  • a retail store, esp. 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.
            a. a course of instruction in a trade, as carpentry, printing, etc., consisting chiefly of training in the use of its tools and materials.
            b. a classroom in which such a course is given.
  • one’s trade, profession, or business as a subject of conversation or preoccupation.

    • –verb (used without object)

  • 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 fol. by for): I’m shopping for a safe investment that pays good interest.

    • –verb (used with object)

  • to seek or examine goods, property, etc., offered for sale in or by: She’s shopping the shoe stores this afternoon.
  • Slang. to try to sell (merchandise or a project) in an attempt to obtain an order or contract.

    • –interjection

  • (used in a store, shop, etc., in calling an employee to wait on a customer.)

    • —Idioms

  • set up shop, to go into business; begin business operations: to set up shop as a taxidermist.
  • shut up shop,

            a. to close a business temporarily, as at the end of the day.
            b. to suspend business operations permanently: They couldn’t make a go of it and had to shut up shop.

  • talk shop, to discuss one’s trade, profession, or business: After dinner we all sat around the table and talked shop.

    • Origin:
    1250–1300; ME shoppe (n.), OE sceoppa booth; akin to scypen stall, shippon, G Schopf lean-to, Schuppen shed

    Shop / shopping. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved August 04, 2009, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shopping





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