Definition of “shop” - English Dictionary

A1 UK US usually store a place where you can buy goods or services:

› UK the act of shopping, especially of shopping for food and other things needed in the house:

› a place where a particular type of thing is made or repaired:

› informal a business

B1 [ I ] to buy things in shops:

› [ T ] UK slang to give the police information about a criminal:

› [ T ] to offer something for sale, especially to several different companies in the hope that one of them will buy it:

› UK COMMERCE a place where people go to buy things:

› COMMERCE, PRODUCTION a place where particular things are made or repaired:

› [ I ] to buy things, especially from stores:

› [ T ] US informal if you shop a company, you try to make people interested in buying it: