Word Finder - shop

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An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.

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A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.

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A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.

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Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.

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A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.

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An establishment where a barber or beautician works.

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An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.

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This is where I do my weekly shop.

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Discussion of business or professional affairs.

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To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.

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He’s shopping for clothes.

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To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.).

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Shop our new arrivals.

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To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.

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He shopped his mates in to the police.

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To imprison.

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To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.

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Used to attract the services of a shop assistant

I found a place for my shop.

It was too early for the silver shop to be open.

And here's the little shop where we used to buy gingerbread!

You obviously clothes shop at yard sales.

She made her way to a coffee shop and sat at a table in the darker end of the shop, hot cocoa in hand.

Let me go lock the shop.

Dean turned at the sound of the shop door opening to see Sheriff Jake Weller standing, hands on hips, staring down at him.

When Dean returned to the outer room of the shop, everyone looked at him expectantly.

I thanked her and closed up shop for the day and left for home.

It was time to plan the nursery and shop for clothes, but that could wait.

By the time they were ready to leave, all of Bird Song was up and about, scurrying around like mice in a cheese shop.

While her car was in the shop getting a new back window, Carmen drove a rental car.

Among other important manufactures are foundry and machine shop products ($6,944,392 in 1905); flour and grist-mill products ($4,428,664); cars and shop construction and repairs by steam railways ($2,502,789); saws; waggons and carriages ($2,049,207); printing and publishing (book and job, $1,572,688; and newspapers and periodicals, $2,715,666); starch; cotton and woollen goods; furniture ($2,528,238); canned goods ($1,693,818); lumber and timber ($1,556,466); structural iron work ($1,541,732); beer ($1,300,764); and planing-mill products, sash, doors and blinds ($1,111,264).

He removed with his parents to Stoughton in 1723, attended the country school there, and at an early age learned the cobbler's trade in his father's shop. Removing to New Milford, Connecticut, in 1743, he worked as county surveyor, engaged in mercantile pursuits, studied law, and in 1754 was admitted to the bar.

She stopped at a light and glanced at a shop to her right where some people were standing around talking.

It was Yancey standing outside that shop, and with him were the man from the building and Allen.

They carry these at the store where we always shop.

Well-worn furniture populated the homey main room, some no doubt the envy of an antique shop.

It was where the barber shop used to be located.

The object of his surveillance was seated at a back table in the coffee shop, sipping a cup of something with frothy cream atop it.

The conversation drifted to clothing—Cynthia's search for an appropriate wedding dress for the mother of the groom, and Jennifer's west coast dress shop.

You're the guy I met in the coffee shop, aren't you?

The shop was pleasant, with comfortable easy chairs in the front, coffee counter in the center and tables to the rear.

She took Destiny and the Twins to another store to shop.

The front of the shop was open to the.

Her latest painting-- another seaside depiction of Fisherman's Wharf-- leaned against one wall, ready to be delivered to Kevin's shop.

Dean, the only one without skis, separated from the others and located the rental shop.

Just west of the intersection, he pulled up to Cimarron Books, a small combination bookstore and coffee shop.

If need be, he could influence a pretty shop owner and take her in the back room.

There was an upscale coffee shop a couple of blocks away and Fred suggested they stop for coffee.

No one respects a one-person shop.

A bottle gang or " shop " consists of five persons.

Where else did you go besides the barber shop?

The only businesses I remember are the feed store and a dress shop named McGuire's Clothing.

Silly me, I thought it was a hardware store, but it turned out to be a beauty shop!

Cece Baldwin was the only person seated at the counter when Dean arrived at the designated shop, only a few minutes before the allotted time.

He must have two places in the shop, one most clean for physic, and the base place for chirurgic stuff.

During this period a number of prisoners of the Petcheneg tribe were settled in the neighbourhood, in all probability the ancestors of the Shop tribe which now inhabits the surrounding districts.

The geographical ideas which prevailed at the time Columbus started in search of Cathay may be most readily gathered from two contemporary globes, the one known as the Laon globe because it was picked up in 1860 at a curiosity shop in that town, the other produced at Nuremberg in 1492 by Martin Behaim.1 The Laon globe is of copper gilt, and has a diameter of 170 mm.

Its most distinctive manufactures are paper and wood pulp; more valuable are foundry and machine shop products; other manufactures are safes, malt liquors, flour, woollens, Corliss engines, carriages and wagons and agricultural implements.

The company was victorious in the strike, and the factory became an "open shop."

An ample supply of natural gas is utilized by its manufacturing establishments; and among its manufactures are axes, lumber, foundry and machine shop products, furniture, boilers, woollen goods, glass and chemical fire-engines.

The climate and the scenery in and about Biddeford attract summer visitors and there are two resorts, Biddeford Pool and Fortune Rocks within the municipal limits; but the city is chiefly a manufacturing centre (third in rank among the cities of the state in 1905) - good water-power being furnished by the river - and cotton goods, foundry and machine shop products and lumber are the principal products, the first being by far the most important.

He may conceivably have met Bacon, but it is quite incredible that he met Shakespeare in the printing shop of Thomas Vautrollier.

His success in reproducing articles he had read in The Spectator led him to write an article for his brother's paper, which he slipped under the door of the printing shop with no name attached, and which was printed and attracted some attention.

He proposed founding a new sect with the help of Franklin, who after leaving his shop ridiculed him for his long square beard and for keeping the seventh day.

The leading manufacturing industries in 1905, with the product-value of each in this year, were slaughtering and meat-packing ($4,040,162), foundry and machine shop work ($3,146,914), flour and grist milling ($ 2, 79 8, 74 0), lumber manufacturing and planing ($2,519,081), printing and publishing (newspapers and periodicals, $2,097,339 and book and job printing, $1,278,841), car construction and repairing ($1,549,836) - in 1910 there were railway shops here of the Southern Pacific, Pacific Electric, Los Angeles Street, Salt Lake and Santa Fe railways - and the manufacture of confectionery ($953,915), furniture ($879,910) and malt liquors ($789,393).

He started work at the age of seven in a ropeworks, attending the wheel of a rope-spinner for ten hours a day, and on Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings toiled in a barber's shop. He afterwards became a gasworker, and in 1889 he helped to found the National Union of Gas Workers and General Labourers, becoming its general secretary.

Other important manufactures, with their product values in 1900 and in 1905, are iron and steel ($5,004,572 in 1900; $6,167,542 in 1905); railway cars ($4,248,029 in 1900; $5,739,071 in 1905); packed meats ($5, 1 77, 16 7 in 1900; $5, 6 93,73 1 in 1905); foundry and machine shop products ($4,434,610 in 1900; $4, 6 99,559 in 1905); planing mill products, including sash, doors and blinds ($1,891,517 in 1900; $4,593, 2 5 1 in 1905-an increase already remarked); carriages and wagons ($2,849,713 in 1900; $4,059,438 in 1905); tanned and curried leather ($3,757,016 in 1900; $3,952,277 in 1905); and malt liquors ($3,186,627 in 1900; $3,673,678 in 1905).

Foundry and machine shop products, hosiery and knit goods, wooden boxes, flour and grist mill products, and malt liquors are other important manufactures; the value of wooden boxes increased from $979,758 in 1900 to $2,565,612 in 1905, or 161.9%, and the value of hosiery and knit goods increased during the same period from $2,592,829 to $3,974,290, or 53.3%.