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noun ADJ. high-street | corner, local, village | busy | elegant, fine, exclusive, expensive, grand, high-class, posh, smart, stylish, sumptuous, upmarket | delightful, excellent, good, wonderful | well-stocked | trendy | old-fashioned, quaint, traditional | dingy, shabby | colourful | boarded up, disused, empty, vacant | butcher's, greengrocer's, etc. | gift, pet, shoe, etc. | electrical, photographic, etc. | specialist | duty-free She bought 400 cigarettes at the airport duty-free shop. | charity I gave all my old books to a charity shop. | junk | betting | mobile Mobile shops are invaluable to people in rural areas. | retail | one-stop This is your one-stop shop for all your holiday needs. QUANT. parade, row The post office is at the end of the row of shops. | chain The brothers opened a chain of electrical shops in the eighties. VERB + SHOP have, keep, own, run | open, set up She opened a flower shop in the High Street. (figurative) Some buskers had set up shop outside the station. | close, shut (up) At 5.30 she shuts up shop and goes home. SHOP + VERB sell sth | offer sth The shop offers a large selection of leather goods at reasonable prices. | specialize in sth | advertise sth | display sth | open | close, shut SHOP + NOUN assistant, manager, manageress, owner, staff, worker | counter, display, doorway, front, premises, shelves, sign, window | chain a famous shoe shop chain PREP. around/round a/the ~ I went around all the shops but I couldn't find a present for him. | at a/the ~ There was was a break-in at that new shop last night. | in a/the ~ She works part-time in a shop.
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shop especially British English , store especially American English a building or place where things are sold: • She's gone to the shops to get some milk. • a clothes shop • Our local store has sold out of sugar for making jam. boutique a small shop that sells fashionable clothes or other objects: • a little boutique which specializes in bath products. superstore British English a very large shop, especially one that is built outside the centre of a city: • Out -of-town superstores have taken business away from shops in the city centre. department store a very large shop that is divided into several big parts, each of which sells one type of thing, such as clothes, furniture, or kitchen equipment: • He went around all the big department stores in Oxford Street. supermarket ( also grocery store American English ) a very large shop that sells food, drinks, and things that people need regularly in their homes: • Supermarkets have cut down the number of plastic bags they distribute by 50%. salon a shop where you can get your hair washed, cut curled etc garden centre, nursery garden centre British English , nursery especially American English a place that sells a wide range of plants, seeds, and things for your garden: • Your local garden centre can advise you on which plants to grow. outlet formal a shop that sells things for less than the usual price, especially things from a particular company or things of a particular type: • The book is available from most retail outlets. market an area, usually outdoors, where people buy and sell many different types of things: • I usually buy our vegetables at the market – they're much cheaper there. mall especially American English a large area where there are a lot of shops, especially a large building: • A new restaurant has opened at the mall. • We used to hang around together at the mall. strip mall American English a row of shops built together, with a large area for parking cars in front of it: • Strip malls can seem rather impersonal.