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shop

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of shop

1 also shoppe an establishment where goods are sold to consumers

  • the only shop that has that video game in stock is halfway across the state
Synonyms of shop

bazaar, emporium, store
Words Related to shop

market, marketplace, outlet, showroom

boutique, chain store, department store, dime store, exchange, five-and-ten (also five-and-dime), mart, mini-mart, thrift shop, variety store

big box, supercenter, superstore

2 a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods

  • a machine shop
Synonyms of shop

factory, manufactory, mill, plant, works, workshop
Words Related to shop

sweatshop

atelier, studio, workplace, workroom

yard

3 the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field

  • the patient impressed her cardiologist with her ability to talk shop
Synonyms of shop

argot, cant, dialect, jargon, jive, language, lingo, patois, patter, shoptalk, slang, terminology, vocabulary
Words Related to shop

colloquial, colloquialism, idiom, localism, parlance, pidgin, provincialism, regionalism, speech, vernacular, vernacularism

slanguage

bureaucratese, computerese, cyberspeak, educationese, governmentese, journalese, technobabble

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