shop

«shop» in Mova's school dictionary: a place where you buy things — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun, verb (shop, shops, shopped, shopping)

meaning for a pupil

1) A shop is a place where you buy things. tree →

2) To shop is to go and buy things. tree →

3) A workshop is a place where things are made or fixed. tree →

4) «Shopping» is buying things, or the things you bought. tree →

5) (casual) «The shops» means the local shopping street or centre: «I'm off to the shops»; «shop till you drop» means shop a lot. tree →

6) (UK slang, rough) To shop someone is to tell the police or a teacher about them: «He shopped me to the head.» tree →

7) (casual) «Talk shop» means talk about work; «shut up shop» means close or stop. tree →

8) (formal) «Retail premises», «establishment» and «vendor» are stiff words for a shop: «items purchased from a retail establishment». tree →

sense in the lessons

Maths: a place of buying and selling with prices, money spent and change: cost = price × number; things left = start − sold. Everyday: corner shop, toy shop, go shopping, shopping list, shopping bag. American English often says «store» for shop. In casual talk: «nip to the shop», «the offie» (UK off-licence), «servo» (Australia, a petrol station shop). In the exam voice: «a retail establishment», «the vendor», «expenditure incurred». Phrases: «shop around», «window-shopping», «a bull in a china shop».

examples

• The shop sells pens for $2 each. tree →
• She shopped for 2 hours. tree →
• The shop had 60 cakes and sold 45. tree →
• How much did she spend at the shop? tree →
• We go shopping on Saturday mornings. tree →
• Write a shopping list so you don't forget the milk. tree →
• The bike shop fixed my flat tyre. tree →
• The shop closes at six. tree →
• nip to the shop, get 2 milk and bread, here's a tenner (casual, UK) tree →
• them sweets is 2 dollar each at the shop (casual, broken grammar) tree →
• You shopped me to the teacher? You little snitch. (rough, UK slang) tree →
• A retail establishment possesses 60 cakes, of which 45 are sold; ascertain the quantity remaining. (formal exam) tree →
• "From the shop opposite," he replied. tree →

note

Countable noun; verb doubles the p: shopped, shopping. A money setting: cost = price × number; things left = start − sold; change = money given − cost. Shop (UK) = store (US). Trap: «shopped someone» (UK slang) means told on them, not bought anything. «Window-shopping» is looking, not buying, so no money is spent. A «tenner» is 10 pounds or dollars, a «fiver» 5. Formal «expenditure» = money spent.

In the corpora

• Shops, hospitals, buses and factories need people at all hours, so their workers follow a rota that can change every week.
• Cashback at a shop means taking your own money out as cash while paying by card; it is not a gift.
• Volunteering means working without pay to help a good cause, like Gran's shift at the charity shop.
• Vivid example: in a Leeds corner shop, Auntie Bev holds up a magazine: "SOAP STAR'S SECRET HEARTBREAK!
• "People like you also bought" lists are made to help shops sell you more.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shop» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.