repair shop
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2.1
- noun
- /rɪˈpɛr ʃɑp/
:
taller
- I took my broken laptop to the local repair shop for fixing.
- auto repair shop
- car repair shop
- automotive repair shops
You work at a tire repair shop in Gulfport, Ms.
- You work at a tire repair shop in Gulfport, Ms.
- Now that's where independent repair shops are supposed to come in, and they have done so for years.
- And it's what was missing when I would take these chassis from my, from the repair shop and, and chop them up into pieces.
Examples
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There's a little TV repair shop about two blocks from here.
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Duffy's half-brother has his own repair shop across from the town junkyard.
Fiction book (2000) -
What kind of repair shop is it?
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I thought this was a repair shop.
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I am afraid this car will be in the repair shop for a long, long time.
Blog text (21) -
In the right one... an auto repair shop.
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Our very own airplane repair shop.
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William's dad managed an auto repair shop in Cleveland.
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I work in a Hoover repair shop.
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Then, when Daphne was 14, he left the mill to open a motor repair shop with a friend.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
314
1.0
A small workshop where someone makes or fixes things by hand
61
2.3
A room where people make or fix things using tools
12
1.8
A place where people fill cars with fuel and get small repairs
2
3.0
A place that repairs household things like clocks and toasters
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'repair shop' is directly compositional: 'repair' (an act of restoring working condition) combined with 'shop' (a place of work) yields a place where repairs are carried out. This noun–noun compounding is a common and transparent pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Repair shop comes from the simple idea of a shop where people repair broken things. So it means 'a place to have things fixed'.