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  • 31shop — [[t]ʃɒ̱p[/t]] ♦♦ shops, shopping, shopped 1) N COUNT A shop is a building or part of a building where things are sold. [mainly BRIT] ...health food shops. ...a record shop... It s not available in the shops. Syn: store (in …

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  • 32shop — 1 noun 1 PLACE WHERE YOU BUY THINGS (C) a) BrE a building or part of a building where things are sold to the public; store AmE: The shops in town close at 5.30. | toy shop/pet shop etc: Have you seen that new shoe shop? b) a small shop that sells …

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  • 33shop — n. & v. n. 1 a building, room, etc., for the retail sale of goods or services (chemist s shop; betting shop). 2 a place in which manufacture or repairing is done; a workshop (engineering shop). 3 a profession, trade, business, etc., esp. as a… …

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  • 34shop — shop1 [ ʃap ] noun ** 1. ) count a place where you buy things or where you pay for a service: STORE: We ate lunch at a little coffee shop. a copy/barber/pawn shop: I need to go to the pawn shop and to get my watch back. a ) only before noun… …

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  • 35shop — I UK [ʃɒp] / US [ʃɑp] noun Word forms shop : singular shop plural shops *** 1) a) [countable] a place where you buy things or where you pay for a service We had lunch at a little coffee shop. b) [only before noun] relating to a shop a shop window …

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  • 36shop — noun (esp. BrE) ⇨ See also ↑store ADJECTIVE ▪ corner (BrE), local, village ▪ high street (BrE) ▪ busy ▪ exclusive …

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  • 37shop — /ʃɒp / (say shop) noun 1. a building where goods are sold retail. 2. a place for doing certain work; a workshop. 3. an act of shopping for goods: we do a big weekly shop. –verb (shopped, shopping) –verb (i) 4. to visit shops for purchasing or… …

  • 38shop — black·shop; in·tra·shop; shop; shop·ful; shop·lift; shop·lift·er; shop·lift·ing; shop·man; shop·a·hol·ic; bar·ber·shop; shop·per; …

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  • 39shop — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. mart, market, store, bazaar, emporium; office, workshop, shoppe, works, factory, mill. See business. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. store, department store, retail store, dry goods store, novelty shop,… …

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  • 40shop — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English shoppe, from Old English sceoppa booth; akin to Old High German scopf shed Date: 14th century 1. a handicraft establishment ; atelier 2. a. a building or room stocked with merchandise for …

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