Meanings
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noun
A building or place where goods or services are sold to the public.
They bought it at a shop on the beach.
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2
verb
To go to shops to buy things.
I shop every Friday when there are good deals to be had.
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3
noun
A place where things are made or repaired; a workshop or garage.
The car's in the shop right now for repairs.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *skup- Old English scoppa Middle English shoppe English shop From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with Dutch schop (“spade, kick”), German Schuppen (“shed”), German Schober (“barn”), French échoppe (“booth, shop”) (< Germanic). The verb is denominal. The noun senses “act of shopping”, “purchased items” are backformed from the verb.
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