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I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bicycle shop (also bicycle store American English) ▪ His dream was to own a bicycle shop. a book shop (also book store American English) ▪ I got it from that little book shop in the village. a cake shop ▪ There's a very good cake shop in the market. a charity shop (=one that gives the money it makes to a charity) ▪ Give your old clothes to a charity shop. a craft shop (=selling things made by craftsmen or women) a discount store/shop (=selling things more cheaply than other shops) ▪ There's a lot of competition from large discount stores. a dress shop (=selling women’s dresses and other clothes) ▪ It was an expensive dress shop. a fashion shop ▪ We walked around Milan’s famous fashion shops. a fish shop ▪ She works in the fish shop on the High Street. a flower shop ▪ He used to run a flower shop. a gift shop ▪ The gift shop was well stocked with souvenirs. a pet shop ▪ Your local pet shop will have a variety of different collars. a repair shop/yard (=a place where things of a particular kind are repaired) ▪ He works in a shoe repair shop. a shoe shopBritish English, a shoe store American English a shopping bag ▪ She loaded her shopping bags into the back of the car. a shopping basket ▪ She paid for the apples and put them in her shopping basket. a shopping centre ▪ They are building a huge new shopping centre just outside the town. a shopping complex ▪ Some old buildings were pulled down to make space for a new shopping complex. a shopping district ▪ The bomb exploded in a crowded shopping district. a shopping expedition (=when you go shopping) ▪ I took Mary and the kids on a shopping expedition into Manchester. a shopping list (=a list of things you want to buy) ▪ a Christmas shopping list a shopping streetBritish English (= with a lot of shops) ▪ This is one of Europe’s most elegant shopping streets. a shopping/fishing/skiing etc trip ▪ He was knocked off his bicycle on his way home from a shopping trip. a shop/store window ▪ She looked in shop windows. an exclusive shop (also an exclusive store American English) ▪ I walked along Bond Street, past all the exclusive shops. antique shop ▪ They bought the clock at an antique shop in Bath. betting shop body shop bucket shop charity shop chip shop Christmas shopping (=for presents for people) ▪ Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? closed shop coffee shop consignment shop cop shop corner shop do the shopping/cleaning/ironing/cooking etc ▪ Who does the cooking in your family? gift shop go shopping/swimming/skiing etc ▪ I need to go shopping this afternoon. high street banks/shops/stores etc Internet shopping/banking ▪ The new regulations will increase customer confidence in Internet shopping. ▪ Internet banking saves customers a lot of time. junk shop machine shop paper shop retail outlet/shop/store/chain ▪ We are looking for more retail outlets for our products. secondhand store/shop etc (=a shop that sells second-hand things) sex shop shop assistant shop floor ▪ The chairwoman started her working life on the shop floor. shop front shop steward shop talk shopping bag shopping basket shopping cart shopping centre shopping list shopping mall ▪ a huge new shopping mall shopping mall shopping precinct shopping spree ▪ a shopping spree shopping trolley souvenir shop ▪ a souvenir shop talking shop tea shop the village hall/school/shop/church ▪ A meeting will be held at the village hall on Tuesday. thrift shop COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADJECTIVE antique ▪ First I had to pass the antique shop where Mr Rutherford resided. ▪ I just want to look into that antique shop. ▪ Mr Barker had intended to sell the goods in the antique shop he runs with his wife. ▪ There were almost more antique and second-hand shops in some of those villages than there were houses. ▪ The atmosphere is that of a village with antique shops, delightful pubs, tea shops and bistros. ▪ Her Sloane Street shop was between an antique shop and a florist's. ▪ They rely on buying their sickles from antique shops and jumble sales. ▪ They both love browsing in antique shops wherever they happen to be visiting, and appreciate good quality modern and reproduction designs. betting ▪ The compact circuit, purpose-built with the betting shop service in mind, has surprised owners Ladbrokes with its robust evening trade. ▪ Once I'd scrawled for a betting shop on Priory Hill. ▪ Most of the Powis Square mob frequented a particular betting shop where their noisy ways were tolerated. ▪ The many village shops have closed and reopened as video or betting shops, or estate agents. ▪ I hit the betting shop and lose dough perched on a stool. ▪ Bookmakers say they should handle the betting tax rebate as the money comes from their betting shops. ▪ The offence in s.3 will not be committed by an accused who walks away from a betting shop or brothel. closed ▪ This was not so easy at that time as the crewing arrangements were very much of a closed shop. ▪ It was the last closed shop in Britain, he said, and it had to go. ▪ The closed shop: Mr Fowler said the legislation would guarantee people the freedom to decide whether or not to join a union. ▪ The production unions' success had various causes, including an effective closed shop and weak newspaper managements. ▪ Therefore, your club must not be a closed shop. ▪ The closed shop and the wildcat strike have undermined the legitimacy of modern trade unionism. ▪ Their purpose was to weaken the closed shop and to outlaw secondary picketing. ▪ Only one firm in two now bargains with unions, compared with two-thirds then. Closed shops have been outlawed. local ▪ Nomatterwhat help or advice you need, call in or phone your local shop. ▪ Admission is $ 4, with a $ 1 discount coupon available at local camera shops. ▪ Between a small, local shop where there is likely to be less security, and a large supermarket or department store? ▪ But Garcia said the 26 or 28 weapons confiscated were purchased in local gun shops and registered in his name. ▪ You should browse in your local art shop. ▪ Competition rules and regulations available from your Local Radio Rentals shop. ▪ Your local pet shop is likely to have a variety of different collars available. ▪ My local art shop had no idea and none of the books I have read so far give any advice. pet ▪ She was uneasy about going to the pet shop. ▪ Packets are available at gyms, athletic stores and pet shops throughout Tucson, or by calling 647-7572. ▪ This is sold, alongside Omega cat food, through specialist outlets such as pet shops, garden centres and agricultural merchants. ▪ We went to three pet shops before we found a pair of gray Brussels griffons. ▪ Suitable designs which clip together are available especially from larger pet shops. ▪ Frozen adult brine shrimp have been on the market for quite some time and are available through almost any pet shop. ▪ Your local pet shop is likely to have a variety of different collars available. ▪ You can obtain suitable tablets for this from your vet and most pet shops. retail ▪ A paved plaza at the Third Street entrance, near on-campus retail shops. ▪ Here there are famous department stores, fashion shops, retail shops with high quality goods, confectioners and pavement cafes. ▪ The third opportunity is offered by Cristina, a Brasov businesswoman with her own workshop and retail shop. ▪ A good third of the stock of any hardware retail shop in Nairobi is now derived from this source. ▪ The main delivery journeys to the retail shops had all been done by Fridays. ▪ The plan calls for a three-story, 42-unit apartment complex that would also include retail shops. toy ▪ The toy shop was one huge playroom where everything was owned in common. ▪ They sell them in the toy shop down the road. ▪ They escaped from the toy shop, and went to live in the market building, in the middle of the square. ▪ The scissors have stainless steel blades and retail at £1.99 in department stores and toy shops. ▪ I was like a kid in a toy shop. ▪ She craved cuddles and kisses; she was given a catalogue from Hamley's toy shop. NOUN assistant ▪ She found she was short-tempered with shop assistants, angry if something she had ordered failed to arrive on the appointed date. ▪ She remembered his tetchiness with shop assistants, which presumably had been simulated. ▪ The expression of the shop assistant was making her most uncomfortable. ▪ Dress shop assistants grow supercilious, aware that they can uplift or slay us with a single comment. ▪ He stabbed the shop assistant at least six times with a knife. ▪ The shop assistant watched them curiously from behind the old-fashioned mahogany counter; you never knew what to make of these foreigners. charity ▪ Clothes and bric-a-brac have been pouring into the hospice's charity shops in response to an appeal for more goods. ▪ Members of the town's hospice movement say trade has fallen dramatically at their charity shop. ▪ All the outfits on the catwalk were made up from clothes donated to its charity shops. ▪ One sign: when Seattle started to charge citizens by the bagful, charity shops found their doorsteps knee-deep in unwanted gifts. ▪ When family charity fails to clothe you, try a charity shop. ▪ For the last year, charity shops have had to cut back the number of toys they sell drastically because of new legislation. ▪ But for a sudden, necessary purchase, it is worth scouring the charity shops at any season. chip ▪ It was half a mile to the chip shop, so you had to get a head start. ▪ Enroute to the Blood Kit, the chip shop even sold pineapple rings. ▪ The nearest centre with camping, chip shops, pubs etc is St Just, five miles south down the B3306. ▪ The violence began outside a chip shop when rival gangs clashed. ▪ Or is Mary's a chip shop? ▪ It seemed inevitable after this that he should take himself to the nearest fish and chip shop to eat his supper. ▪ The worst pollution is at sites near outlets from industrial potato washing units and fish and chip shops. ▪ More than once I had gone down to the phone outside the chip shop at Annick Water. coffee ▪ I was working in a coffee shop not far from here. ▪ It has sprouted shopping malls, discos and nightclubs, beauty salons, gymnasia, news kiosks, coffee shops. ▪ Finally the two women refused to fill out any more grant applications with him in coffee shops and on the street. ▪ I went into the Cookery coffee shop. ▪ She wants to open a coffee shop next door. corner ▪ At 5 or 6 years ò Trust them to go to the corner shop to buy milk or a paper. ▪ Proactive job search Perhaps as a child you were sent with a list to the corner shop. ▪ In Burnley Wood, a mob of white youths surrounded Amit Stores, a corner shop near the working men's club. ▪ The residents go to the pub, the local corner shop, the club and they go and play bingo. ▪ Tucker's was a corner shop on Hoomey's way home. ▪ Here he is with his hands full after a buying spree in a corner shop. ▪ Small corner shops shut as she approached them. ▪ Willie recognized Mr Miller from the corner shop and the young man behind the mesh in the Post Office. floor ▪ I believe any young graduate would get an awful lot of value from working with people on the shop floor. ▪ Traditional craft know-how was being reduced to scientific data and passing from workman to manager, from shop floor to front office. ▪ Willis described the elements of the culture of the shop floor as being hinged around the execution of hard work. ▪ Of course, we also provide practical project management training from the shop floor up. ▪ They were, in fact, star workers whose performance on the shop floor was being rewarded with a weekend in paradise. ▪ Staff working in the office, on the shop floor and in the warehouse may well communicate via the internal telephone system. ▪ On the shop floor Sometimes goods are delivered direct to the shop floor without having been priced. ▪ The 3 expert systems then developed have remained in use on the shop floor since the end of the trial. front ▪ In the courtyard of the family home, on the road and in shop fronts, people chatted, smoked, gossiped. ▪ The stalls had disappeared, the shop fronts were boarded up. ▪ A freshly painted shop front with shining glass and a window full of bottles. ▪ The streets were jammed tight with narrow shop fronts and grimy cafés. ▪ Attracting 600,000 visitors a year, the village is littered with ugly shop fronts and tacky signs. ▪ Across the streets whole shop fronts lay in a mangled mess. ▪ Paint was peeling from the shop fronts, some premises were derelict. gift ▪ Shops A gift shop and children's shop are situated just off the main car park. ▪ Springer says the exhibition area will not include a museum, theater or gift shop. ▪ There also is a gift shop and restaurant. ▪ Aviary, children's play area, gift shop and tea rooms. ▪ Sunday morning, Rice was in a hotel gift shop. ▪ Refreshment facilities, restaurant, picnic areas and gift shop. ▪ Tickets are $ 10, available at the Flandrau gift shop. junk ▪ I'd carried it back from a local junk shop. ▪ Liverpool gets scruffier every day, with junk shops springing up all over. ▪ Old deal or pine kitchen chairs can be picked up reasonably in junk shops and painted or stained. ▪ Doyle was just climbing out of the shattered window of the junk shop. ▪ So Rita scoured junk shops for second-hand pieces to fill the rooms. ▪ Recently I opened a cupboard in a junk shop and there, sure enough, was a skeleton, swinging. ▪ Careful searching through old junk shops and around antique markets may well produce endless ideas and inspiration from which you can work. ▪ Explore junk shops and markets for costume pearls and earrings to recreate this expensive look. machine ▪ Jan Fischer produced a transporter that might well have come from a professional machine shop. ▪ Soon the machine shop was running on two shifts, day and night. ▪ But the quickest way to the foundry is through the machine shop, especially in this weather. ▪ It was the elder Gough who founded the Marin Weightlifting Club and relocated it to the vacant machine shop in 1990. ▪ The machine shop was an enormous shed with machines and work benches laid out in a grid pattern. ▪ The machine shop left hundreds of thousands of men with shared memories: The whirring and flapping of the belts. ▪ At the time, George Jennings was running a machine shop. ▪ But give labor anything it wants, even a lousy ten-man machine shop, and every drop of it is blood. shoe ▪ Next door was a shoe shop. ▪ The shoe shop next door is bought out by a firm of metal welders. ▪ My husband works in a shoe shop. ▪ I am sad to see that one of my favourite landmarks, R. Soles the shoe shop, has closed down. ▪ Their father had a large shoe shop in the town. ▪ I was out with my children when we passed a shoe shop with some wellington boots outside. ▪ Dekko Moore was a cousin of Paccy Moore's in the shoe shop. ▪ He never thought I was fit to run a shoe shop. souvenir ▪ The first objective is the provision of a new souvenir shop, refreshment room and booking office. ▪ The streets around the Plaza are filled with boutiques, galleries, restaurants and souvenir shops. ▪ For those last minute Mickey Mouse presents for home there is also a mini-market and souvenir shop. ▪ Several small restaurants at the swimming area serve full meals and cold beer. Souvenir shops abound. ▪ Gift and Book Shop A packed souvenir shop full of interesting and unusual gifts and informative and entertaining books. ▪ The extension would provide space for offices, cloakrooms, a souvenir shop and bookshop, the library and temporary exhibitions. ▪ I found myself in a smart town square surrounded by glittering bars, hotels and souvenir shops. ▪ There is also a shire horse souvenir shop. steward ▪ He says that shop stewards will want to talk to managment again. ▪ Not long ago, I was in a nasty argument with a shop steward. ▪ The exchange is purely ritual in function, authorizing Bert Braddock to reassure anxious shop stewards if they start asking awkward questions. ▪ Remember, this is an election for shop steward. ▪ Problems faced by part-time women shop stewards were researched by this same group of men. ▪ Although shop stewards held a meeting yesterday, union organisers had not been informed officially of the authority's move. ▪ The hon. Gentleman will be aware that I have discussed the frigate orders with the shop stewards. tea ▪ The tea shop was next door to one of Sara's branches. ▪ I sat in a tea shop. ▪ The atmosphere is that of a village with antique shops, delightful pubs, tea shops and bistros. ▪ I went into a tea shop and ordered a pot of tea and a little cake in fluted white paper. ▪ Since the 1930s, it has served as both a tea shop and now a restaurant. ▪ And this tea shop closed its doors and sent the staff home. ▪ I would bike to the tea shop in the High Street and see what blends they had. village ▪ Once they talked of it in the village shop, the whole village would know by nightfall. ▪ DivaIi, the festival of lights, would soon be upon us and the village shops were stocked up with fireworks. ▪ Village information scheme for Exmoor Exmoor National Park has decided to set up information agencies in selected village shops. ▪ There was the pretty girl from the village shop wearing an emerald-green dress more suited to a wedding. ▪ Everyone was hungry, but there was no food to be had for it had floated out of the village shop and away. ▪ Now she had pulled up outside the village shop and was yelling to them to bring her out an ice-cream. ▪ The many village shops have closed and reopened as video or betting shops, or estate agents. ▪ Probably she went into the Fir Tree or the village shop to get change for those calls. window ▪ I will never forget, the shop windows were dressed beautifully with mauve velvet. ▪ A priced article in a shop window is not an offer, simply an invitation to negotiate. ▪ Again they were foiled - this time by a security cage lining the shop window. ▪ Alison Edwards suffered three deep cuts in her face when she accidentally fell through a shop window. ▪ The lighted shop windows threw a bleak illumination on to the empty pavements. ▪ The display in the shop window was an extravagant scenario designed to showcase a monster train set. ▪ One or two of the shop windows nearby were lacking glass, while others had a white star painted on them. VERB buy ▪ Flour is ground at the mill and can be bought form the mill shop. ▪ Within a short time his business became so successful he bought the shop where he had worked without pay. ▪ I made my way back to Chelsea only too aware that I had no intention of buying a shop in the terrace. ▪ He renovated the place and made it so successful that he also bought the second shop where he had worked! ▪ While these miners are working they buy in the shops and that keeps others in work. ▪ Finally the Ashleys decided to combat the problem of non-paying wholesale customers by themselves buying a London shop. ▪ He and his wife Joy bought a small antique shop in nearby Chipping Norton. close ▪ Mr Evans closed the shop for an extra half hour and brought out a bottle of sherry. ▪ And retailers, caught betwixt the two, were perplexed and losing money, if not closing up shop for good. ▪ Arthur Davidson has closed his London antique shop of that name under pressure of mounting debt. ▪ Ezra hurried by the closed shops toward the river; back along Canal Street to the Hotel Rehoboth. ▪ At lunch-time she closed the shop for an hour or longer, and shut up at five-thirty. ▪ It was at ten minutes to nine when she decided to close up the shop. ▪ Surely they must be about to close the bomb shop down. open ▪ He is thinking of opening a small shop. ▪ He opens a surfer shop in Ames, Iowa, right down the street from the tractor repair shop. ▪ The company had opened a record fifteen shops in 1978 bringing its total to over seventy outlets worldwide. ▪ He had just bought a sewing machine in Warsaw and he intended to open his own shop in their small town. ▪ Shortly after opening their shop in 1986, Beth was told that she had cancer. ▪ He opened a flower shop but spends most of his time working as a delivery boy. ▪ Cop shop: Police have opened their own cop shop at Darlington police station to sell personal attack alarms and security devices. ▪ She wants to open a coffee shop next door. run ▪ Have you noticed how every bookstore seems to run a coffee shop? ▪ Mary Lowther, a fruiterer who runs a shop in Skinnergate. ▪ Probably running a repair shop by now Or somebody's fleet. ▪ His wife still runs a sweet shop in Buckinghamshire. ▪ A third brother, Ben, runs the farm shop. ▪ Miss Asher also runs her own cake shop, which she opened three years ago in Chelsea. ▪ One ran a cooked-meat shop and dining-room; another specialized in funeral teas. sell ▪ The trendy logos mean they can sell in shops for up to £50 apiece; but looks can be deceptive. ▪ They can press up their own records and sell them through local shops and radio. ▪ What they did not need, they sold to the shops and markets for resale to the public. ▪ He sold the shop, of which he was the owner by then, and moved into ffeatherstonehaugh's as a resident. ▪ He had carved figures which sold in the shops in Salzburg, but he had never set foot on a farm. set ▪ Early registration figures are also said to be disappointing for the banks and building societies which have set up share shops. ▪ NxtWave opted not to set up shop in Silicon Valley and instead chose Langhorne. ▪ She set up the shop in 1990 with the intention of selling yarn, patterns and accessories. ▪ Caffino is also in the process of getting city permits to set up shop in suburban areas of Boston and Chicago. ▪ It recently undertook such a project for a major oil company which was setting up shop in Moscow. ▪ Wade Smith was given salesman of the year in January and promptly left to set up shop on his own. ▪ The Barrio Grill originally set up shop just over a year ago. shut ▪ It's not like being on shore where once the patients are gone you shut up shop and go home. ▪ But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession, traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes. ▪ Keith Rodwell, Ipswich Witches' commercial manager, shuts up shop after last night's match with Wolverhampton was rained off. ▪ Time to shut up shop and get to know each other again. ▪ We might just as well shut up shop. ▪ They need ways of shutting up shop, or at least of enduring, when conditions are simply impossible. ▪ I think we should shut up shop, if you don't mind. visit ▪ It's been a pleasure visiting your shop. ▪ Near Medicine Bow, Wyoming, I visited a rock shop made entirely of fossilized dinosaur bones. ▪ But we never visit her shop and she knows why. ▪ As a young boy, he visited the shop most Fridays and helped serve customers. ▪ In addition to car boot sales, officers had visited shops selling tobacco and drink. ▪ Bunting had visited the shop 24 hours earlier. ▪ Yesterday Charles visited a ginseng shop in the trading district of Nam Pak Hong. ▪ Two thirds of those questioned said that they would visit a betting shop in the evening. work ▪ They work in shops, offices, building societies and banks. ▪ He was working in an upholstery shop when a wrestler came in to get a leather mask repaired. ▪ My husband works in a shoe shop. ▪ I worked in shops back home where I was manager. ▪ Tony did not want to work in a shop or a factory. ▪ Everybody working in the shop must know how to cook. ▪ What about working in a shop? ▪ She worked in a shop selling chocolates. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES close up shop ▪ Finnegan's Bar is closing up shop after 35 years. ▪ Some of the big ad agencies close up shop early for the holidays. ▪ A few companies closed up shop in California. ▪ And retailers, caught betwixt the two, were perplexed and losing money, if not closing up shop for good. ▪ At one stage, he considered closing up shop for good. factory girl/shop girl/office girl go down the shops/club/park etc ▪ We went down the shops on Saturdays. hit the shops/streets ▪ But after the officer leaves, Michael grabs his sleeping bag and hits the streets. ▪ Equipped with such information, I decided it was time to hit the streets. ▪ Laid-off workers are hitting the streets. ▪ Meanwhile, his book, Black Coffee Blues, is due to hit the shops in mid-December. ▪ She told me to hit the streets with the canvas bag and start ringing doorbells the instant school was out next day. ▪ The newspaper has had $ 29 million in losses since it hit the streets on Jan. 10, 1994. ▪ The service is currently in beta testing and should hit the streets in the first quarter of next year. ▪ When the idea hit the streets, we at Guitarist were unanimous in wanting to throw our weight behind the project. like a bull in a china shop ▪ Politically, he often behaved like a bull in a china shop. ▪ You're not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop again? mind the shop ▪ Carrie had been minding the shop. ▪ Emily and Maudie can mind the shop quite well without me, so I can look after Josh and the boys. ▪ I have to mind the shop here. mobile library/shop/clinic etc ▪ A mobile library visits once a fortnight. ▪ A ferocious sandstorm overturned a mobile library. ▪ A tent will not be a building, nor will a phone kiosk or a mobile shop. ▪ In some remoter villages mobile shops play an important role, but these rarely create jobs in these villages themselves. ▪ The dry cleaner delivers, mobile clinics come to you. ▪ We have a mobile clinic for them with eight centres. 1 want to start a colony for them. one-stop shop/store etc ▪ Intuit is now aiming to become a one-stop shopping source for anyone looking to do home banking. ▪ Once combined, the companies hope to provide one-stop shopping-all of their services to customers on one bill. ▪ The attraction to consumers, Schneider said, would be one-stop shopping and possibly extra services. ▪ The companies' will explore ways to provide one-stop shopping for utilities that want to automate many of their business functions. ▪ The opening would give many franchisers their first permanent showrooms and allow for one-stop shopping by potential franchisees. ▪ Their goal is to become the one-stop shopping mall of cyberspace. shut up shop ▪ But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession, traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes. ▪ I think we should shut up shop, if you don't mind. ▪ It's not like being on shore where once the patients are gone you shut up shop and go home. ▪ Keith Rodwell, Ipswich Witches' commercial manager, shuts up shop after last night's match with Wolverhampton was rained off. ▪ They need ways of shutting up shop, or at least of enduring, when conditions are simply impossible. ▪ Time to shut up shop and get to know each other again. ▪ We might just as well shut up shop. talk shop ▪ And remember that everyone of it is of your own kind, some one with whom you can talk shop. ▪ Andy the Mouse got pretty manic and spent half an hour talking shop with a Mickey. ▪ At the moment the annual summit is little more than an expensive talking shop. ▪ The Commonwealth is simply a talking shop. ▪ This would enable a tough general manager to ensure that medical audit did not become simply a talk shop or token activity. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a card shop ▪ a new health food shop ▪ After assembly, the cars go to the paint shop to be painted. ▪ Could you run down to the shop and get me some cigarettes? ▪ I asked in my local record shop but they couldn't help me. ▪ I got it from the secondhand furniture shop. ▪ Our car's still in the shop. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All that thrives are thrift shops. ▪ Doyle was looking at the shop which sold oriental bits and pieces. ▪ Of course, we also provide practical project management training from the shop floor up. ▪ Packets are available at gyms, athletic stores and pet shops throughout Tucson, or by calling 647-7572. ▪ Record shops had replaced the local cobbler, and Dolcis had given way to Mary Quant. ▪ Shopkeepers and their families were seldom seen outside their shops. ▪ Surplus radio and electronics shops are another source. ▪ The smith's shop where my father worked was reached through a doorway at the right of the carpenter's shop. II. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADVERB around ▪ If these appear dullish, it could pay to shop around. ▪ Thus far, the trade wires have been quiet as general managers shop around for the best deals. ▪ Our main 1979 survey suggested that weekly-collection credit users do not shop around for bargains as much as others. ▪ Owners shop around for a new-stadium deal. ▪ The thinking seems to be that many savers are too ignorant or lazy to shop around. ▪ It is well worthwhile getting plenty of advice and shopping around. ▪ Chances are, you can match any Houston rate if you take the time and effort to shop around your own city. home ▪ Home shopping as a whole accounts for only 3% of retail spending. ▪ Interactive catalogs are the customized interface to consumer applications such as home shopping. ▪ Home shopping alone has spent £35 million over the past five years putting in computer systems. ▪ Broadband services will include video-on-demand, home shopping, banking and network games, he said. ▪ For instance, look at the success of on-line chat services and home shopping channels. ▪ A: I think people will see the Internet as an excellent way to do home shopping. NOUN christmas ▪ Have you finished your Christmas shopping or have you yet to begin? ▪ Feeley was shown at a press briefing saying it was just some early Christmas shopping. ▪ Not Christmas shopping time already, is it? ▪ Avoid the hustle and bustle of high street Christmas shopping. comparison ▪ Whether they're called comparison engines, shopping, or bargains finders, they more or less do the same thing. ▪ If people were to live by comparison shopping, the town would go bust. ▪ Shop with ease, comparison price shopping. ▪ Finally, do some comparison shopping and a price / benefit analysis. consumer ▪ Increasingly price-conscious consumers are shopping less at department stores and more at discount stores and general merchandise stores. ▪ Changing consumer shopping patterns and lack of food management skills at the company subsequently led to below-expected results. ▪ At these large markets, although they purchased from many different retailers, consumers could shop for all their food needs. customer ▪ A spokesman said that customers could carry on shopping as normal. ▪ Beaty recalls one customer shopping for a package deal: a mountain bike and a sedan. ▪ A customer who shops regularly at one retail outlet will get to know where the items she normally buys are displayed. ▪ And booksellers should open across trading hours which match when customers want to shop - including Sundays. grocery ▪ The group already operates a successful online grocery shopping service through its Waitrose supermarket chain. ▪ Metro Food Markets, a chain with 12 stores in the Baltimore area, plans to introduce on-line grocery shopping this fall. place ▪ It is a good place to shop in still. ▪ With handy offers like a free performance analysis on your site, TrustWise is an excellent place to go certificate shopping. ▪ This was the premiere place for Angelenos to shop even through the 1960s. supermarket ▪ Food Giant claims we're all spending far more than we need to when we shop at the well-known supermarkets. ▪ He shops in the supermarket like anyone else, he carries out the garbage, shovels the snow off the sidewalk. ▪ If none of these options are open to you, then shopping at a large supermarket is probably the best solution. ▪ Imagine that you are shopping at your local supermarket. VERB go ▪ And if she was staying she had to go shopping for groceries. ▪ Take an extra exercise class. Go shopping. ▪ Where do pixies and elves go shopping? ▪ I got to go shopping with the wardrobe people at the beginning of the season. ▪ The 15-year-old asks if he can go off shopping on his own for a few hours. ▪ When the going gets tough, the tough allegedly go shopping, and into debt. ▪ The next day, Saturday, we go shopping. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES crying/shopping/talking etc jag ▪ I had an incredible crying jag. do the shopping ▪ I did all my shopping yesterday. ▪ On Saturdays we usually do the shopping and clean the house. ▪ She sent her husband out to do the week's shopping. ▪ We need to go grocery shopping - do you have the check book? ▪ But then, Harriet with her fair-haired plaits and smooth round forehead jiggling off to help Mummy do the shopping. ▪ Husbands can easily get out of touch with the cost of living unless they do the shopping regularly and see the bills. ▪ It is good for me to get out and do the shopping. ▪ Jane would light the fire, turn the heating on, put the horses and donkey out and do the shopping. ▪ Our sick ones received their injections, then off we went to do the shopping. ▪ While I do the shopping, Miles sits near the checkout counter reading. ▪ With Chancellor at the wheel, they had left enfamille to do the shopping. ▪ With Ivy and Ken she would take a weekly trip into Aberdeen or Banchory to do the shopping. factory girl/shop girl/office girl like a bull in a china shop ▪ Politically, he often behaved like a bull in a china shop. ▪ You're not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop again? mobile library/shop/clinic etc ▪ A mobile library visits once a fortnight. ▪ A ferocious sandstorm overturned a mobile library. ▪ A tent will not be a building, nor will a phone kiosk or a mobile shop. ▪ In some remoter villages mobile shops play an important role, but these rarely create jobs in these villages themselves. ▪ The dry cleaner delivers, mobile clinics come to you. ▪ We have a mobile clinic for them with eight centres. 1 want to start a colony for them. one-stop shop/store etc ▪ Intuit is now aiming to become a one-stop shopping source for anyone looking to do home banking. ▪ Once combined, the companies hope to provide one-stop shopping-all of their services to customers on one bill. ▪ The attraction to consumers, Schneider said, would be one-stop shopping and possibly extra services. ▪ The companies' will explore ways to provide one-stop shopping for utilities that want to automate many of their business functions. ▪ The opening would give many franchisers their first permanent showrooms and allow for one-stop shopping by potential franchisees. ▪ Their goal is to become the one-stop shopping mall of cyberspace. shopping/pedestrian precinct ▪ Continue through Headington shopping precinct until reaching Windmill Road traffic lights, turn right and continue until the roundabout. ▪ For a modern, purpose-built resort it is surprisingly attractive, with its wood-clad buildings and cobbled shopping precincts. ▪ However, most cities now have some car-free space in the form of arcades, converted streets or purpose-built pedestrian precincts. ▪ James was found dead beside a railway line in Liverpool after disappearing from a shopping precinct in Bootle last month. ▪ The life of a new shopping precinct may be no more than twenty years. ▪ The shopping precinct is full of teenagers gathered in small clusters, smoking, gossiping, laughing, scuffling. ▪ The two-year-old disappeared 11 days ago from Bootle's Strand shopping precinct. ▪ They are usually found in town centres and shopping precincts. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I usually shop at Safeway. It's just around the corner from my house. ▪ When she moved here, she had never shopped in a supermarket before. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I cleaned the house, shopped, washed and cooked. ▪ If you are shopping, stop outside the shop and go over the rules and consequences. ▪ Take time to shop around; get to know your local wine merchant or investigate your local supermarket.
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I. shop1 S1 W1 /ʃɒp $ ʃɑːp/ noun [Word Family: noun: shop, shopper, shopping; verb: shop] [Language : Old English; Origin : sceoppa 'stall'] 1. PLACE WHERE YOU BUY THINGS [COUNTABLE] especially British English a building or part of a building where you can buy things, food, or services SYN store American English toy/pet/shoe/gift etc shop ▪ Her brother runs a record shop in Chester. ▪ a barber’s shop ▪ a fish-and-chip shop ▪ the local shops ▪ Shirley saw her reflection in the shop window. in the shops ▪ New potatoes are in the shops now. ▪ I’m just going down to the shops. wander/browse around the shops ▪ I spent a happy afternoon wandering around the shops. ⇨ bucket shop, corner shop, coffee shop
2. PLACE THAT MAKES/REPAIRS THINGS [COUNTABLE]a place where something is made or repaired: ▪ The generators are put together in the machine shop. ▪ a bicycle repair shop ⇨ shop floor, shop steward
3. SCHOOL SUBJECT (also shop class) [UNCOUNTABLE] American English a subject taught in schools that shows students how to use tools and machinery to make or repair things in shop ▪ Doug made this table in shop. wood/metal/print etc shop ▪ One auto shop class is run just for girls.
4. set up shop informal to start a business
5. shut up shop British English, close up shop American English informal to close a shop or business, either temporarily or permanently
6. talk shop informal to talk about things that are related to your work, especially in a way that other people find boring: ▪ I’m fed up with you two talking shop. ⇨ shop talk
7. all over the shop British English spoken a) scattered around untidily: ▪ There were bits of paper all over the shop. b) confused and disorganized: ▪ I’m all over the shop this morning.
8. GO SHOPPING [SINGULAR] British English spoken an occasion when you go shopping, especially for food and other things you need regularly: ▪ She always does the weekly shop on a Friday. • • • THESAURUS ▪shop especially British English, store especially American English a building or place where things are sold : ▪ She's gone to the shops to get some milk. ▪ a clothes shop ▪ Our local store has sold out of sugar for making jam. ▪boutique a small shop that sells fashionable clothes or other objects : ▪ a little boutique which specializes in bath products. ▪superstore British English a very large shop, especially one that is built outside the centre of a city : ▪ Out -of-town superstores have taken business away from shops in the city centre. ▪department store a very large shop that is divided into several big parts, each of which sells one type of thing, such as clothes, furniture, or kitchen equipment : ▪ He went around all the big department stores in Oxford Street. ▪supermarket (also grocery store American English) a very large shop that sells food, drinks, and things that people need regularly in their homes : ▪ Supermarkets have cut down the number of plastic bags they distribute by 50%. ▪salon a shop where you can get your hair washed, cut curled etc ▪garden centre British English, nursery especially American English a place that sells a wide range of plants, seeds, and things for your garden : ▪ Your local garden centre can advise you on which plants to grow. ▪outlet formal a shop that sells things for less than the usual price, especially things from a particular company or things of a particular type : ▪ The book is available from most retail outlets. ▪market an area, usually outdoors, where people buy and sell many different types of things : ▪ I usually buy our vegetables at the market – they're much cheaper there. ▪mall especially American English a large area where there are a lot of shops, especially a large building : ▪ A new restaurant has opened at the mall. ▪ We used to hang around together at the mall. ▪strip mall American English a row of shops built together, with a large area for parking cars in front of it : ▪ Strip malls can seem rather impersonal.
II. shop2 verb (past tense and past participle shopped, present participle shopping) [Word Family: noun: shop, shopper, shopping; verb: shop] 1. [INTRANSITIVE] to go to one or more shops to buy things shop for ▪ I usually shop for vegetables in the market. shop at ▪ She always shops at Tesco’s. ⇨ window-shopping
2. go shopping (also be out shopping) to go to one or more shops to buy things, often for enjoyment: ▪ The next day, Saturday, we went shopping. ▪ Mum’s out shopping with Granny.
3. [TRANSITIVE] British English informal to tell the police about someone who has done something illegal: ▪ He was shopped by his ex-wife. shop around phrasal verb to compare the price and quality of different things before you decide which to buy shop around for ▪ Take time to shop around for the best deal.
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