shop

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shop is one of the 1000 most common headwords.
shoot - shop - short

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Singular
shop

Plural
shops

A shop in China.
  1. (countable) A place which sells things.
    He bought a hat from the shop.
  2. (countable) A place where things are made.
  3. (countable) An office

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Plain form
shop

Third-person singular
shops

Past tense
shopped

Past participle
shopped

Present participle
shopping

  1. If you shop for something, you look for it in a store because you want to buy it.
    I need some new shoes, but I've been shopping for them for a week and I can't find any I like.