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noun

ˈshäp How to pronounce shop (audio)
Definition of shopnext
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as in store
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

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as in factory
a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods a machine shop

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as in terminology
the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field the patient impressed her cardiologist with her ability to talk shop

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verb

British
as in to inform (on)

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Recent Examples of shop
Noun
Tom Anderson has owned a neighborhood pub and wine shop at the edge of Eagle Rock for seven years and thinks that offloading commuter traffic could be helpful to the area in the long run. — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Local content creators are starting to find their way to her shop. — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2026 Even in the cutthroat days of Old Hollywood, a starlet could suddenly find fame after simply being discovered at a soda shop. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Sep. 2026 The Burbank Cards shop is one of the biggest card shops, if not the biggest, in the world. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for shop
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shop
  1. store
  2. factory
  3. terminology
  4. turn in
  5. mill
  6. dialect
  7. plant
  8. vocabulary
Noun
  • With some knowingly polite smiles, John navigates an awkward, potentially racist interaction at a local gun store while purchasing a sniper scope (sans gun) to spy on Macon’s compound from a nearby tower.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2026
  • In 1989, the holiday food drive became a year-round program, and in 1990 the company’s stores began accepting cash donations at the register.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 7 Sep. 2026
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  • Xiaomi, a consumer electronics company that only launched its first electric car in 2024, started testing humanoid robots at its factory this year.
    — Jenny Lee,Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Missile surge reaches factory floor The Arkansas expansion forms part of a much larger manufacturing push by L3Harris.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of factory
Noun
  • The terminology may differ, but the underlying patterns rarely do.
    — Farzana Abdulhusein, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Lloyd will wear the green dot in Charlotte, however, with Okereke just trying to learn the terminology.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of terminology
Verb
  • Each week, Canada would have the quarterbacks turn in their favorite plays.
    — Doug Haller, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The pair allegedly turned in the fraudulent petitions to several petition coordinators, in order to receive payments from a petition management company.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of turn in
Noun
  • Former England players Eoin Morgan and Ian Ward, waiting their turn on air, mill about and chat among themselves.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Beyond the plant stood the Nucor steel mill, a cornfield and the Mississippi River.
    — Austyn Gaffney, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of mill
Noun
  • Owner and chef Stefania Marchesini, who fished professionally herself for 11 years, pays a premium to local fishermen, especially for soft-shell crabs known in the local dialect as moeche.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
  • What used to be two entirely separate compliance projects is starting to look like two dialects of the same emerging language.
    — Abdelahhad Barbour, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of dialect
Noun
  • Saudi Arabia has promised to build desalination plants and two airports, and invest in telecommunications projects worth more than $1 billion.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The prairies’ clayey soils and other characteristics suppress tree growth, but allow native grasses, wildflowers and other herbaceous plants to thrive.
    — Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of plant
Noun
  • As the Senate ages, Fetterman won’t be the last case litigated entirely in that vocabulary, for want of any real capacity to evaluate, accommodate, or retire an official on medical grounds.
    — Michael P.H. Stanley, STAT, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Commanders offensive lineman Brandon Coleman compared picking up a new offense to learning a new vocabulary in school.
    — David Aldridge, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
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“Shop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shop. Accessed 14 Sep. 2026.

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