1. A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
   "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod";
   - store
    
2. Small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done
   "The carpenter spent most of his day in his shop";
   - workshop
    
3. A course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity)
   "I built a birdhouse in shop";
   - shop class

1. Do one's shopping
   "She goes shopping every Friday"
    
2. Visit and look around a shop or shops, not necessarily buying
   "I don't need help, I'm just shopping";
   - browse
    
3. Do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
   "We shop at the local farmers' market every weekend";
   - patronize, patronise [Brit], shop at, buy at, frequent, sponsor
    
4. [informal] Inform on someone to authorities or others in power
   "He shopped his former gang members";
   - denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat [informal], grass, snitch [informal], stag, squeak [informal]

Derived forms: shops, shopping, shopped

Type of: back up, class, course, course of instruction, course of study, inform, look for, mercantile establishment, obtain, outlet, retail store, sales outlet, search, seek, support, work, workplace

Antonym: boycott

Encyclopedia: Shop, Look & Listen