SHOPS Synonyms: 88 Similar and Opposite Words

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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

Many of the town’s exterior shots were filmed along White Wharf and the fishing village of Bearskin Neck, a peninsula that served as military barracks during the War of 1812 and is now lined with local shops and restaurants. — Nicholas Derenzo, Travel + Leisure, 25 Aug. 2026 Madison Avenue shops will soon be embellished with a different look — sketches and designs by CFDA student scholarship winners. — David Moin, Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2026 People walk past shops and browse for goods at the Grand Bazaar in Tehran on Monday. — Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 25 Aug. 2026 People come from all over to enjoy its nostalgic Main Street dotted with fun shops. — Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026 Just across the highway sits the Palladio — an outdoor shopping center with a movie theater, shops and restaurants that draw visitors from across the region. — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 25 Aug. 2026 The proposal also includes a 4,000-seat music and performing arts venue, a 2,000-seat practice facility and community ice rink, two hotels, a movie theater, offices, shops, restaurants, 1,385 rental units and 26 acres of parks, plazas and trails. — Cbs News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026 There is a perception among consumers that dealers charge more for service than independent repair shops and chains, although some auto industry groups say the evidence supports the opposite, according to Cox Automotive. — Robert Ferris, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026 But the risk that such projects could turn into multibillion-dollar boondoggles has some Wall Street shops looking for safer corners of the power market in which to park their money. — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shops

Noun

Asteri has nine stores in Saudi Arabia, in addition to locations in other countries in the Middle East.

— Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026
Aikman has started venturing into restaurants, coffee shops, stores and other public places with his weekend puppy raiser, Larry Nelson.

— Nelly Carreño, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of stores

Noun

The five-day World Humanoid Robot Games, which began Saturday in Beijing, combine events modeled on human sports with those designed to test the robots in simulated factories, restaurants and offices and in emergency situations.

— Reuters, NBC news, 23 Aug. 2026
This essentially proves the design, factories, assembly procedures, and qualification processes are ready for serial conversion of the rest of the stockpile.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of factories

Noun

Researchers have built ArabCulture-Dialogue, the first benchmark for testing whether leading AI models can understand and converse in Modern Standard Arabic and 13 national dialects.

— Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2026
And while Hasidic dialects are by far the most spoken among modern Yiddish speakers, opportunities to learn the Hasidic dialect from native speakers like Malowicki are relatively rare.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of dialects

Verb

The intricacies of the interpersonal dynamics and conversational turns in the scene ground the dispute in emotion, and two characters who were once at odds find common ground.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026
On television, Jones appeared in the TV movie The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance, and made guest turns in the series Dallas, Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince, Sliders and As the World Turns.

— Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of turns in

Noun

Later that month, the same court ruled to uphold the EPA’s extension of deadlines for steel mills to comply with certain hazardous emissions standards.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026
In the 1200s, Italian papermakers developed a technology to add subtle, distinctive markings to the paper that came from their individual mills.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of mills

Noun

For localization, Voithru’s Totus offers AI dubbing across 29 languages, and XL8 brings both MediaCAT and EventCAT for video localization and real-time interpretation.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
Flowkey works across laptops, phones, and tablets and is available in 11 languages.

— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of languages

Noun

Disrupting the flow across the US-Canada border will cost US jobs, both for the auto parts industry and at assembly plants, according to experts.

— Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
The shortage of cattle also has left beef processing plants operating below capacity.

— John Hanna, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of plants

Noun

Yet a 2023 Stanford study said that Pangram was biased against non-native English speakers, who might have more limited vocabularies, and many AI researchers contend that such detectors are unreliable.

— Cameron Pugh, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026
Chinese law schools have accordingly placed greater weight on teaching Chinese students to argue using the vocabularies of foreign legal systems.

— Mark Jia, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026