to shop
- verb
- /ʃɑp/
- What are your favorite places to shop for plus size clothing?
- go shopping
- shop for food
- shop at a supermarket
While she's doing that, the design team here shops all over LA.
- While she's doing that, the design team here shops all over LA.
- What are your favorite places to shop for plus size clothing?
- So we use all my fucking points to shop for the employees at UFC.
- OK, I know I don't normally shop for luxury clothes.
- We're probably going to go to the Mall of Asia to shop after breakfast.
- That's so when I, when I can grocery shop, I do.
- I've got to multitask, make dinner, shop, create ideas, stop.
- That's where do you shop Big Lots?
- Well time people go and shop and so we go partner with them.
Examples
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Does this news affect the way you'll shop for a tech heavy car?
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We shop together, get our hair done together.
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So why do you shop at night then?
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- I used to shop there.
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Have fun shopping for the baby.
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Carter wanted to go Christmas shopping with you.
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The same is true for consumers as they shop around for the best provider.
Academic text (1996) -
Chevy has convenient ways to research and shop EV online.
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Don't forget to go food shopping for Ma this week, and don't forget the cigarettes.
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I need to shop for some new shoes before the party.
Synonyms
To buy things or be a customer at a store
To shop as a customer at a particular store or seller
To often buy things from a shop or use its services
To go shopping at several stores
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
A clumsy or careless person who causes damage in delicate situations
- Offensive
A person who is clumsy and insensitive in delicate situations
- Informal
A person who thinks they are special and sometimes feels out of place
Phrasal Verbs
To check prices for the same item at different stores or websites before you buy
Compounds
- Specialized
A workshop where people use tools to cut and shape metal or hard materials
- US
A school course where students learn hands-on skills like building things from wood or metal
- US
A place where hairdressers cut and style hair and give treatments for skin and nails
- Specialized
The area in a factory where workers use machines to make or assemble goods
- Jargon
A conversation about work that uses words only people in the same job understand
A shop where people leave things to get a loan that may be sold if not paid back
- UK
An online page, like a shop website or social media, that shows products to attract customers
- Archaic
A shop in the past that sold cheap ready-made clothes often used by sailors
How Committed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shop as a verb comes from going to a shop to buy things, so to shop is to look for or buy goods.