Definition of "shop" []

• A small retail store or a specialty department in a large store. (noun)
• An atelier; a studio. (noun)
• A place for manufacturing or repairing goods or machinery. (noun)
• A commercial or industrial establishment: a printing shop. (noun)
• A business establishment; an office or a center of activity. (noun)

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• "'And when I say a shop,' Hugo pursued, 'I mean a _shop_.'"
• "Thank goodness it occurred to me at once to say that I went into the tobacco shop to buy stamps and I must have left it in the _shop_."
• "In regard to the daily, or even the occasional use of the stronger drugs of the apothecary's shop -- whether this _shop_ is found in the family or elsewhere -- I would fain hope many of our young women may claim an entire immunity."