Betekenis van shop In het Nederlands

• 0 a place where you can buy goods or services:

  • a book/clothes/record/sweet shop

  • a barber's/betting shop

  • I need to go to the shops - I've got no food in the house.

  • I usually do the weekly shop on a Monday.

  • His latest novel will be in the shops by Christmas.

• 1 a place where a particular type of thing is made or repaired:

  • He runs a car repair shop.

• 2 a business

• 3 to buy things in shops:

  • I like to shop at Gap for clothes.

  • If I'm just shopping for food, I tend to go to the local supermarket.

• 4 to give the police information about a criminal:

  • His ex-wife shopped him to the police.

• 5 to offer something for sale, especially to several different companies in the hope that one of them will buy it:

  • Your script gets shopped to literary agents and movie studios.

• 6 to look for and buy (things):

  • We shop in malls because they’re convenient.

• 7 a place where a particular type of thing is made or repaired:

  • a bicycle repair shop

  • I work in a machine shop making wire.

• 8 a place where you can buy goods or services; store:

  • a gift shop

  • a barber shop

  • a coffee shop

• 9 a place where people go to buy things:

  • Our village shop sells mostly food and magazines.

  • For more great bargains, visit our online shop!

  • a book/clothes/shoe shop

• 10 a place where particular things are made or repaired:

  • All our delivery bicycles are regularly checked in the repair shop.

• 11 be available for people to buy:

  • Her new designs will be in the shops in the spring.

• 12 to manage or look after a business when its usual owner or manager is not there:

  • While their fellow employees are getting time off, they are left to mind the shop.

• 13 to start doing business somewhere:

  • Several European retailers have set up shop in the US.

  • Setting up shop on the web is an increasingly attractive option for young entrepreneurs.

• 14 to talk about things relating to your work when you are in a social situation, especially in a way that is not interesting to other people:

  • I hate these dinners where everyone talks shop the whole time.

• 15 to buy things, especially from stores:

  • The new shopping mall is designed for people who love to shop.

  • shop for sth She's always shopping for bargains.

  • We usually shop at the local supermarket.

  • shop with sb/sth Only shop with companies that offer a full after-sales service.

  • Most people go shopping at the weekend.

• 16 if you shop a company, you try to make people interested in buying it:

  • Management is shopping the company.