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   Shop (?), obs. imp. of Shape. Shaped.  Chaucer.
   
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   Shop, n. [OE. shoppe, schoppe, AS. sceoppa a treasury, a storehouse, stall, booth; akin to scypen a shed, LG. schup a shed, G. schoppen, schuppen, a shed, a coachhouse, OHG. scopf.]
   1. A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.
   
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   From shop to shop
   
   Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks
   
   The polished counter. Cowper.
   
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   2. A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, “a shoe shop; a car shop.”
   
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   A tailor called me in his shop. Shak.
   
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   3. A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; -- sometimes in deprecation or disapproval; as, “to talk shop at a party”.  Also used attributively, as in shop talk.
   
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   4.  A place where any industry is carried on; as, “a chemist's shop”; also, (Slang), any of the various places of business which are commonly called offices, as of a lawyer, doctor, broker, etc.
   
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   5.  Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc. [Slang, Chiefly Eng.]
   
   
   6.  the group of workers and the activities controlled by an administrator; as, “to have five people in one's shop”. [Colloq.]
   
   ☞ Shop is often used adjectively or in composition; as, shop rent, or shop-rent; shop thief, or shop-thief; shop window, or shop-window, etc.
   
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   To smell of the shop, to indicate too distinctively one's occupation or profession. -- To talk shop, to make one's business the topic of social conversation; also, to use the phrases peculiar to one's employment. [Colloq.]
   
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   Syn. -- Store; warehouse. See Store.
   
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   Shop, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shopped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Shopping.] To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
   
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   He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping. Byron.
   
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