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shop
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an establishment where goods are sold to consumers the only shop that has that video game in stock is halfway across the state Synonyms bazaar, emporium, store Related Words 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, superstoreshoppe
;2 a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods a machine shop Synonyms manufactory, mill, plant, factory, works, workshopRelated Words 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 argot, cant, dialect, jargon, jive, language, lingo, patois, patter, terminology, shoptalk, slang, vocabularyRelated Words colloquial, colloquialism, idiom, localism, parlance, pidgin, provincialism, regionalism, speech, vernacular, vernacularism; slanguage; bureaucratese, computerese, cyberspeak, educationese, governmentese, journalese, technobabble
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