SHOPS Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

shops 1 of 2

noun

plural of shop

as in stores

also shoppes 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 factories

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

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as in dialects

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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shops

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verb

present tense third-person singular of shop, British

as in informs (on)

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Recent Examples of shops

Noun

The result is Pedder Arcade, which offers six shops, a bar and a coffee shop targeted mainly to men on the fifth floor of the city’s Pedder Building. — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026 Isaias came ashore as a Category 2 hurricane Friday near Destin, Florida, a Gulf Coast vacation spot filled with high-rises and tourist shops. — ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026 Restaurants, motels and small shops welcome visitors to the town, a significant portion of whom travel through on their way to or from Cape Disappointment State Park. — Saige Miller, NPR, 11 Oct. 2026 For Whiting, the solution comes from bringing more diverse businesses to the Gables, not just restaurants and bridal shops. — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026 Buyers and sellers flocked to specialty card shops and shows, where scores of entrepreneurial dealers hawked vintage and modern products. — Bob Woods, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026 On those days, Shawn would go out into the neighborhood, to the shops and hawker centers, looking for the man. — Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026 The looting targeted the TPLF administration office, the regional police headquarters and some shops, Filmon said Sunday. — Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026 In states that haven’t banned the substance, it’s sold at gas stations, smoke shops and convenience, grocery and health food stores in various forms, including powders, loose-leaf teas, capsules, tablets and concentrates. — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shops

Noun

The hotel’s personality is spelled out by the stores in the mall it’s connected to—all upscale, all chic.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
Cross-category retailing can up the experiential quotient for beauty in travel retail stores.

— Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of stores

Noun

Russia’s constant attacks on factories, energy supply systems and the railways means that steel supply to the Ukrainian armed forces is also being degraded.

— Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2026
Tariffs are far from the only reason for the lost of manufacturing jobs, and factories have cut workers for decades with or without them.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of factories

Noun

Documenting many varieties is a way to not just share the language, but to illustrate how dialects of Pennsylvania Dutch differ and maybe even fill in each other’s gaps.

— Eythana Miller, The Dial, 24 Sep. 2026
Italy is a unique country where every city has its own identity, architecture, traditions, flavors, dialects and even different ways of life.

— Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of dialects

Verb

Technically speaking, Amber turns in a pretty stellar week-one cha-cha, and the notes from the judges are mostly about finesse and refinement.

— Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2026
A couple of decent right-footed crosses from the left, a free kick won by holding the ball up well with his very first touch, and a few nice turns in the area.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of turns in

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To help textile mills assess the impact of their headers, Fabscrap also developed a Smart Swatch Scorecard, which assigns header designs a grade, based on the number of components and the relative ease of disassembling them.

— Bella Webb, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026
Instead of seeing these requirements as simple administrative tasks, leaders from both organizations encourage brands and mills to concentrate on basic data and on end-to-end transparency.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of mills

Noun

Longtime strawberry farmer Rod Koda has rows of plants on his California farm that are still producing fruit well after the harvest would typically end.

— Haven Daley, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Rivera said nearly all of the country’s water treatment plants had reported some degree of infrastructure damage, although the full extent remained under evaluation.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of plants

Noun

The expansion will also introduce new catalogs in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish and more, with more than 120 languages in total.

— Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026
Barbara Kingsolver Barbara Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned a devoted readership.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2026