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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A small retail store or a specialty department in a large store.
2. n. An atelier; a studio.
3. n. A place for manufacturing or repairing goods or machinery.
4. n. A commercial or industrial establishment: a printing shop.
5. n. A business establishment; an office or a center of activity.
6. n. A home workshop.
7. n. A schoolroom fitted with machinery and tools for instruction in industrial arts.
8. n. The industrial arts as a technical science or course of study.
9. v. To visit stores in search of merchandise or bargains.
10. v. To look for something with the intention of acquiring it.
11. v. To visit or buy from (a particular store).
12. shop around To go from store to store in search of merchandise or bargains.
13. shop around To look for something, such as a better job.
14. shop around To offer (a large block of common stock, for example) for sale to various parties: "[The company] is now actively being shopped around, with a prospectus in circulation” ( Marianne Yen).
15. idiom. talk shop To talk about one's work.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A booth or stall where wares were usually both made and displayed for sale.
2. n. A building, or a room or suite of rooms, appropriated to the selling of wares at retail.
3. n. [In the rural districts and smaller towns of the United States the term store takes almost exclusively the place of the British shop, but the latter word is in occasional and increasing use in this sense in large cities.
4. n. A room or building in which the making, preparing, or repairing of any article is carried on, or in which any industry is pursued: as, a machine-shop; a repair-shop; a barber's shop; a carpenter's shop.
5. n. Hence, figuratively The place where anything is made; the producing place or source.
6. n. In glass-making, a team or set of workmen. See the quotation.
7. n. One's own business, craft, calling, or profession; also, talk specifically relating to this: used in a ludicrous or contemptuous sense. Compare to talk shop, below.
8. To visit shops or stores for the purpose of purchasing or examining goods.
9. To shut up; put behind bars; imprison.
10. An obsolete preterit of shape.

Wiktionary

1. n. An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
2. n. A place where things are crafted; a workshop or hobbyshop.
3. n. An automobile mechanic's workplace.
4. n. Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
5. n. A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
6. n. business, computing an organisation using specified programming languages or software, often exclusively.
7. n. An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
8. v. intransitive To visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something.
9. v. transitive, slang, chiefly UK To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority; to "grass up".
10. v. transitive, Internet slang Shorthand for photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
11. interj. Used to attract the services of a shop assistant

GNU Webster's 1913

1. imp. of shape. Shaped.
2. n. A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.
3. n. A building in which mechanics or artisans work
4. n. A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; -- sometimes in deprecation or disapproval. Also used attributively, as in shop talk.
5. n. (Slang) A place where any industry is carried on; . any of the various places of business which are commonly called offices, as of a lawyer, doctor, broker, etc.
6. n. Slang, Chiefly Eng. Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc.
7. n. colloq. the group of workers and the activities controlled by an administrator.
8. v. To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. give away information about somebody
2. v. do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
3. n. a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
4. v. do one's shopping
5. n. small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done
6. v. shop around; not necessarily buying
7. n. a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity)