Shopping & Services

Stores, buying, selling, repairs, hospitality, and everyday service encounters.

117 words

# Shopping & Services

**Type:** Topic
**Words:** 117

## About
Stores, buying, selling, repairs, hospitality, and everyday service encounters.

## Words by Level

### A1
- order - The way things are arranged in relation to one another.
- hotel - A building where travellers pay to stay overnight and are given meals and other services.
- shop - A building or place where goods or services are sold to the public.
- restaurant - A place where you can buy and eat meals, usually served at your table.
- ticket - A printed piece of paper that shows you have paid to travel or to enter a place.
- waiter - A person, especially a man, whose job is to serve food and drink to customers at their tables in a restaurant.
- waitress - A woman whose job is to serve food and drink to customers at their tables in a restaurant.
- dictionary - A book or app that lists words in alphabetical order and explains their meanings, spelling, and pronunciation.
- bookstore - A shop where books are sold.

### A2
- store - A building or shop where you can buy things.
- sale - The act of selling something, or an item that is sold.
- market - A place where people buy and sell goods, often outdoors with stalls.
- appointment - An arrangement to meet someone or be somewhere at a set time.
- tip - A small amount of extra money given to thank someone for a service, such as a waiter.
- customer - A person or company that buys goods or services from a shop or business.
- mall - A large building or area with many shops and restaurants under one roof.
- repair - To fix something that is broken or damaged.
- receipt - A piece of paper showing that you have paid for something.
- cupboard - A piece of furniture with doors and shelves, used to store food, dishes, or other things.
- sew - To join or repair pieces of cloth using a needle and thread.
- cafeteria - A self-service restaurant where you choose your food and carry it to a table, often in a school or workplace.
- drugstore - A shop that sells medicines along with everyday items like cosmetics and snacks.
- bookshop - A shop where books are sold.
- department store
- grocery store
- shop assistant

### B1
- service - Work done by one person or organization that helps or benefits others.
- delivery - The act of taking goods, mail, or other items to a place or person.
- counter - A long, flat surface in a shop, kitchen, or bank where people are served.
- reservation - An arrangement made in advance to keep a room, table, or seat for you.
- stall - A small open shop or table where goods are sold, especially in a market.
- buyer - A person who buys something.
- merchant - A person who buys and sells goods, especially in large amounts or as a business.
- booking - An arrangement to have a seat, room, or service kept for you at a later time.
- refund - Money that is given back to you, usually because you returned something.
- retail - The selling of goods directly to ordinary customers.
- advertise - To tell the public about a product or service in order to encourage them to buy it.
- rearrange - To change the order, position, or arrangement of things.
- checkout - The place in a shop where you pay for what you are buying.
- check-in counter - The act of reporting your arrival at an airport or hotel, often at a special desk.
- check-in desk
- client - A person or company that pays for the services of a professional such as a lawyer or accountant.

### B2
- purchase - Something that you have bought.
- merchandise - Goods that are offered for sale.
- patron - A customer of a shop, restaurant, or other business, especially a regular one.
- functional - Working properly; in good working order.
- catalog - A book or list showing items, often things for sale.
- shoplifting - The crime of stealing goods from a shop while pretending to be a customer.
- alphabetical - Arranged in the order of the letters of the alphabet.
- disorganized - Not arranged or planned in a clear, ordered way; messy and confused.
- shoplift - To steal goods from a shop while pretending to be a customer.
- paperless - Using electronic methods instead of paper to store or send information.
- bookseller - a person whose business is selling books
- bazaar - a marketplace or shopping district consisting of many small shops or stalls, especially in the Middle East or South Asia

### C1
- comply - To do what a rule, order, or request demands.
- consecutive - Following one after another without a break.
- unplug - To disconnect an electrical device by pulling its plug out of the socket.
- churn - To move or stir something, especially liquid, with great force and motion.
- wares - Goods or products that are offered for sale.
- respectively - In the order already mentioned, matching each item to the one before it.
- commissary - a store that supplies food and other goods to members of a military base, prison, or similar institution
- shopkeeping - the business or occupation of owning, managing, or working in a retail shop

### C2
- patronize - To talk to someone as if they were less intelligent or important than you.
- consignment - A batch of goods that is sent or delivered, especially for sale.
- haphazard - Done without any clear plan or order; careless and random.
- consign - To hand something or someone over to another's care or keeping.
- porterage - the work or service of carrying luggage or goods, especially by a porter
- draper - a person who sells cloth, curtains, and related textile goods
- tobacconist - a person who sells tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and related goods
- coster - dated British: a street seller of fruit, vegetables, or other goods; a costermonger
- perfumery - perfumes or fragrant preparations collectively
- dry goods - historical and chiefly US: textiles, clothing, and related merchandise sold by a shop

### C2+
- bespeak - to be evidence of; to order or reserve in advance
- burglarize - to break into a building unlawfully in order to steal
- outright - wholly and completely; without reservation
- receptacle - a container used to hold or store something
- chasten - to discipline or subdue in order to correct or improve
- chippy - irritable and quarrelsome; or a British fish-and-chip shop
- chronicle - a factual written account of events in order of occurrence
- commandment - a divine rule or authoritative order
- disordered - lacking order or arrangement; in a state of confusion
- alphabetic - arranged in or relating to the order of the alphabet
- alphabetize - to arrange in alphabetical order
- arsenal - a store or collection of weapons and military equipment
- auxesis - rhetorical amplification arranging ideas in ascending order of importance; growth by cell enlargement
- countermine - to thwart an enemy's mine by digging a counter-tunnel; to counter a hostile scheme
- disarrange - to disturb the order or arrangement of; to throw into disorder
- disorganization - lack of order or systematic arrangement; confusion
- disruptive - causing disturbance or upheaval; radically altering an established order
- exportation - the act of sending goods abroad for sale
- hoard - to accumulate and hide away a store of something
- injunction - a court order requiring or forbidding an action; an authoritative command
- permutation - an arrangement of items in a particular order, or one of several variations
- precedence - priority in importance, order, or rank
- provider - one who supplies something or supports a family
- sequential - following in a logical order or consecutive succession
- supranatural - transcending or lying beyond the natural order; supernatural
- bakeshop - a bakery; a shop where bread and pastries are made or sold
- banquette - an upholstered bench along a wall, especially in a restaurant
- cashier - a person who handles payments; to dismiss from service in disgrace
- cetacean - a marine mammal of the order including whales, dolphins, and porpoises
- chandlery - a shop or store selling supplies, especially for ships
- chelonian - a reptile of the order comprising turtles and tortoises
- collate - to collect and arrange items in proper order, especially for comparison
- commandery - a district or estate under the command of a knightly order
- enjoin - to instruct or urge to do something; to prohibit by order
- fiat - an authoritative decree or order issued without consent
- nun - a woman belonging to a religious order under vows
- overhaul - to examine and repair thoroughly; a thorough renovation
- randomly - in a manner lacking any pattern, plan, or predictable order
- rebate - a partial refund or deduction returned to a buyer
- sequentially - in a successive order, one after another
- unreserved - without reservation; frank or not set aside
- vie - to compete eagerly in order to gain something
- touter - a person who solicits customers or promotes something in an insistent or obtrusive way
- cadeau - a gift or present; a consciously French or literary term in English
- market-house - dated: a building, often municipally owned, in which a public market is held

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