Shop - English meaning

verb

Buy or obtain (an asset or object) for oneself.

Usage examples:

I managed to acquire all the books i needed

verb

Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

verb

To obtain or begin to have something

Usage examples:

His family acquired the property in 1985., she acquired her love of the outdoors as a child.

noun

A workshop or studio, especially one used by an artist or designer.

Usage examples:

For the work of those artists within the imperial ateliers was subject to close examination by the …

noun

A room or building in which an artist works

verb

Expose (one's country, a group, or a person) to danger by treacherously giving information to an enemy.

Usage examples:

A double agent who betrayed some 400 british and french agents to the germans

verb

To be not loyal to your country or to someone who believes you are loyal, often by doing something harmful

Usage examples:

Some lawmakers say they feel betrayed by the president., she could not help betraying her sympathy …

verb

To not be loyal to your country or a person, often by doing something harmful such as helping their enemies

Usage examples:

He was accused of betraying his country during the war., she felt betrayed by her mother's lack of …

noun

A small shop selling fashionable clothes or accessories.

Usage examples:

The circle of chic establishments includes boutiques that sell fancy clothes, and lots of places to…

noun

A small shop that sells fashionable clothes, shoes, jewellery, etc.

verb

Obtain in exchange for payment.

Usage examples:

She bought six first-class stamps

noun

A purchase.

Usage examples:

Wine is rarely a good buy in duty-free shops

verb

To obtain something by paying money for it

Usage examples:

She was saving to buy a car., he bought some flowers for his girlfriend., she’ll never buy that sto…

noun

A very large store where businesses can buy large quantities of products at lower prices than usual, or the system of buying products in large quantities in this way

Usage examples:

He worked in a variety of jobs; in a supermarket, a cash-and-carry, and a video shop before decidin…

noun

A large shop where people, usually from another business, can buy large amounts of goods cheaply and take them away immediately

noun

A large store divided into several different areas, each of which sells different types of things

noun

A large store that sells many kinds of products in different parts of the building

Usage examples:

She took a job as a sales assistant in the lingerie section of a department store.

noun

A large retail store selling a wide variety of goods.

Usage examples:

Take the site of the sogo department store, a high-end emporium that once sold everything from eleg…

A large retail store offering a variety of merchandise

noun

A large store selling a large range of goods, or a store selling a particular type of goods

Usage examples:

This chain of discount emporia sells everything from wardrobes to paper clips., welcome to the choc…

noun

The action of establishing something or being established.

Usage examples:

The establishment of an independent government

noun

The people who have most of the power within government or society or in a particular business or activity

Usage examples:

The diplomatic/educational/literary establishment, visitors come to shop in the fashionable new est…

noun

A business or other organization, or the place where an organization operates

Usage examples:

An educational/training/religious establishment, what percent of your establishment's total sales a…

noun

A thing that is known or proved to be true.

Usage examples:

He ignores some historical and economic facts

noun

Something known to have happened or to exist

Usage examples:

No one disputes the fact that the accident could have been avoided.

noun

A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.

Usage examples:

A clothing factory

noun

A workshop or factory for casting metal.

Usage examples:

However, there is more to manufacturing than the industries which once provided the bulk of the job…

noun

A factory where metal is melted and poured into specially shaped containers to produce machine parts

noun

A factory where metal is melted and poured into specially shaped containers to produce objects

Usage examples:

Steel/iron/bronze/foundry electric furnaces are used almost exclusively in the steel foundry., the …

noun

A building for housing a motor vehicle or vehicles.

Usage examples:

A detached house with an integral garage

verb

Put or keep (a motor vehicle) in a garage.

Usage examples:

The car needn't be garaged in the winter

noun

A building where a car or cars are kept, esp. one that is next to or part of a house

Usage examples:

The car wasn’t in the garage so i thought you weren’t home.

verb

Come to have (something); receive.

Usage examples:

I got a letter from him the other day

noun

See have.

verb

Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

noun

A very large self-service store with a wide range of goods and a large car park, typically situated outside a town.

Usage examples:

If they all close down because of competition from big hypermarkets five miles outside town, and yo…

noun

A very large store that is a type of supermarket and that is usually built outside of the centre of a town, selling food and other products such as clothes, furniture, and goods for the home

Usage examples:

The supermarket chain, which already owns hypermarkets in eastern europe, thailand, korea and taiwa…

noun

A very large shop, usually outside the centre of town

noun

A factory.

Usage examples:

The workshops and manufactories became breeding grounds for radical ideas to take hold.

noun

A word used in the past for a factory, sometimes still used in the names of companies

Usage examples:

The soho manufactory was an early factory which pioneered mass production on the assembly line prin…

noun

A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour.

Usage examples:

At mills or bakeries, barley flour can be added to flours from other grains for baking.

verb

Grind (something) in a mill.

Usage examples:

Hard wheats are easily milled into white flour

noun

A monetary unit used only in calculations, worth one thousandth of a dollar.

Usage examples:

A thick paper (and later a lightweight metal) coin with a round hole in the center, the mill was wo…

verb

Get, acquire, or secure (something).

Usage examples:

Adequate insurance cover is difficult to obtain

verb

Come into possession of

noun

A pipe or hole through which water or gas may escape.

Usage examples:

In the base of the gutter were outlets leading to drain pipes to take the water away.

noun

A place of business for retailing goods

noun

An opening through which something, usually a liquid or gas, can come out

Usage examples:

An outlet to the sea, the plumber tightened the outlet valve., drawing classes provided an outlet f…

noun

A sitting room in a private house.

Usage examples:

They had lunch in the parlour

adjective

Denoting a person who professes belief in but does not actively support a specified (especially radical) political view.

Usage examples:

Urban intellectuals and parlour revolutionaries

collocation

Take and lift upward

phrasal verb

Take hold of and lift or move someone or something.

Usage examples:

I reached out and picked up a magazine

phrasal verb

Go somewhere to collect someone, typically in one's car.

Usage examples:

Will you pick the children up from school?

noun

A living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll.

Usage examples:

Eventually, it melts to supply water and nutrients to plants and aquatic organisms.

verb

Put (a seed, bulb, or plant) in the ground so that it can grow.

Usage examples:

We planted a lot of fruit trees

verb

Obtain (something), especially with care or effort.

Usage examples:

Food procured for the rebels

verb

To obtain something, esp. after an effort

Usage examples:

We procured maps and directions from the tourist office., the city’s procurement process

verb

To get something, especially when it involves effort

Usage examples:

Procure capital/funds/financing low interest rates support bonds by making it cheaper for investors…

verb

Acquire (something) by paying for it; buy.

Usage examples:

Mr gill spotted the manuscript at a local auction and purchased it for £1,500

noun

The action of buying something.

Usage examples:

The large number of videos currently available for purchase

noun

Acquire by means of a financial transaction

noun

A person or company that sells something they have bought to someone else.

Usage examples:

Products are sold both directly and through resellers

noun

A company that buys products from manufacturers and sells them to customers

Usage examples:

The company's pcs are sold by computer resellers and distributors., ticket resellers once hired tee…

noun

An establishment where a hairdresser, beautician, or couturier conducts trade.

Usage examples:

Have your hair cut in a professional salon

noun

A store where you can obtain esp. a beauty service or fashionable clothes

Usage examples:

A beauty/tanning/hair salon, the paris salon of gertrude stein

idiom

Get rid of all one's merchandise

noun

An event for which all tickets are sold.

Usage examples:

The game is sure to be a sell-out

noun

A betrayal of one's principles for reasons of expedience.

Usage examples:

One of the biggest political sell-outs in decades

idiom

To harm someone who trusts you

Usage examples:

A lot of people in this business think they have to stab each other in the back to succeed.

idiom

To buy a large amount of something so that you will have enough for the future

Usage examples:

I hadn’t stocked up on food, so i wasn’t ready to feed kate and her friends.

noun

A quantity or supply of something kept for use as needed.

Usage examples:

The squirrel has a store of food

verb

Keep or accumulate (something) for future use.

Usage examples:

A small room used for storing furniture

noun

A place where you can buy goods or services

Usage examples:

A grocery/hardware/video store, convenience/department stores, she has a store of anecdotes (= a la…

noun

A room where an artist, photographer, sculptor, etc. works.

Usage examples:

Mostly the painting is done in the studio, working from drawings

noun

A room where an artist paints or a musician practices

Usage examples:

An artist’s studio, most of the big studios are in hollywood.

noun

A room with special equipment where television or radio programmes or music recordings are made

Usage examples:

Television/radio/recording studio i work in a television studio in boston., they filmed the intervi…

noun

A large self-service shop selling foods and household goods.

Usage examples:

Very little food at shops, supermarkets, and restaurants is local or sustainable.

noun

A large store where many different foods and other goods used in the home are sold

Usage examples:

I have to stop at the supermarket on the way home.

noun

A large store that sells food and other goods for the home

Usage examples:

Booksellers are facing increasing competition from online retailers and supermarkets, which charge …

noun

A very large store that sells a particular type of goods, usually for lower prices than at other stores

Usage examples:

A computer/diy superstore

noun

A large building where raw materials or manufactured goods may be stored prior to their distribution for sale.

Usage examples:

Driving across rural iowa is like driving through the warehouse and light manufacturing district of…

verb

Store (goods) in a warehouse.

Usage examples:

The pallets were warehoused the following day

noun

A room for working in, especially one equipped for a particular kind of work.

Usage examples:

Padded dress form torsos are a common sight at pattern companies, factory workrooms and professiona…

noun

A room in which work is done, especially making things

Usage examples:

The company has laid off all but the 20 people in the workroom making shirts.

noun

Activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result.

Usage examples:

He was tired after a day's work

verb

Be engaged in physical or mental activity in order to achieve a result; do work.

Usage examples:

She has been working so hard

plural noun

All the extra things that may be offered with something

Usage examples:

This camera came with a carrying case, zoom lens, tripod – the works.

noun

A room or building in which goods are manufactured or repaired.

Usage examples:

Giant disused workshops and factory buildings would be flattened to make way for new homes and busi…

verb

Present a performance of (a dramatic work), using intensive group discussion and improvisation in order to explore aspects of the production prior to formal staging.

Usage examples:

The play was workshopped briefly at the shaw festival

noun

A space in a building equipped with tools and often machines for making or repairing things

Usage examples:

A teacher-training workshop

noun

A unit of linear measure equal to 3 feet (0.9144 metre).

Usage examples:

A full skirt that took twenty yards of cloth

verb

Store or transport (wood) in or to a timber yard.

Usage examples:

He is the last logger to be using a sled for yarding logs

noun

A unit of measurement equal to three feet or approximately 91.4 centimetres