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Alternative form of antique shop [A business dedicated to storing, selling, restoring, and trading in items from previous eras for their superficial and historical value, especially furniture and trinkets]
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A consultancy that recruits workers (generally in information technology) in order to contract out their services on a tactical short- to mid-term basis.
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A small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like.
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(law) A legal services firm selling heavily discounted legal services and documents made in large volume from boilerplate text and clauses, sometimes as a white labelled loss leader.
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An extra portion, ration etc.
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(India) A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.
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(UK) A shop to where goods are donated, and sold on at cheap prices, with all the profits going to charity
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A plastic bar that separates the groceries of one customer from another's at a supermarket checkout.
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(US) A shop that sells used goods for their owners (consignors) in exchange for a portion of the proceeds.
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One who, or an organisation which, carries out copacking.
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Alternative form of cop shop [(UK, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, slang) A police station.]
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Alternative spelling of dime store [(US) A store selling inexpensive items.]
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(UK, obsolete) A shop where rags, old junk, etc., are bought and sold; an unlicensed pawnbroker's shop, formerly distinguished by the sign of a black doll.
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Alternative spelling of drugstore [(chiefly US, Canada) Synonym of pharmacy, especially a small standalone general store which includes a pharmacy.]
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A shop where duty-free goods can be bought.
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A product display at the end of a supermarket aisle
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A facility with exercise equipment and sometimes instructors.
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A permanent indoor market of stalls in a warehouse selling inexpensive antiques, outdated goods, curios, etc.
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Alternative form of flea market [An outdoor temporary market selling inexpensive antiques, curios etc.]
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(UK, retail) The part of a department store that sells food.
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(US) A Hispanic grocery store.
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Defense and social government spending, especially when seen as a trade-off.
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A merchant that sells tools, fasteners, and similar objects known collectively as hardware, as well as related sundries used in construction and repair.
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An agency that supplies technical personnel usually on short-term temporary contracts.
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(historical) An unlicensed pawnshop.
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(obsolete) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
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A massive store, warehouse, or distribution center, especially one with a plain or unattractive exterior.
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(UK) Synonym of mind the store
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(Australia, New Zealand) A shop, usually operated by a charity, to which new or used goods are donated, for sale at a low price.
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(Ireland, obsolete) Scales for weighing produce at a market
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A shop that sells the products of a particular manufacturer or supplier.
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(UK, slang, obsolete) Synonym of meetinghouse (“building where Quakers assemble for worship”)
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A shop or other business selling goods specified by context.
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Alternative form of pawnshop [The business premises of a pawnbroker; where loans are made, with personal property as security]
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(Canada, US) Synonym of pet shop
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Work that a worker is paid for according to the number of units produced, rather than the number of hours worked; work done and paid for by the piece or by the job.
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(sports, especially tennis and golf) A shop at a sports club that sells equipment, often run by a professional in that sport
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(US) Synonym of thrift shop
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A printed card affixed to a supermarket or store shelf to draw customers' attention to a specific product.
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(informal) A long session of shopping.
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(now historical) A tradesman's counter or table where goods for sale are displayed.
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(archaic, rare) a small shop
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(sometimes capitalized) A fanciful spelling of shop, chiefly used in the names of businesses to give an air of old-fashionedness.
adj
(colloquial, dated) Abounding with shops.
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The sale by the government of abandoned shops to entrepreneurs who are willing to renovate them and operate there, as part of an urban revitalization policy.
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Alternative form of shop window [A large window at the front of a shop, behind which items for sale are displayed.]
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A retail establishment that specializes in the sale of psychoactive substances.
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Alternative form of smart shop [A retail establishment that specializes in the sale of psychoactive substances.]
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Alternative form of sweatshop [A factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegal.]
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Alternative form of tally shop [A shop from which the tally trade is conducted]
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(US) A shop which sells used goods (especially clothes) at low prices.
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(US) Synonym of thrift shop
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Alternative form of thrift shop [(US) A shop which sells used goods (especially clothes) at low prices.]
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In Cuba, Mexico, etc., a booth, stall, or shop where merchandise is sold.
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A shop at a rubbish dump that sells items that have been salvaged from the rubbish.
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A building found in parts of the English Midlands, having three storeys, the lower two serving as living accommodation and the upper floor as a workshop containing a weaver's loom.
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(derogatory) An establishment, such as a shop or display, where tourists are encouraged to spend money on goods or services not necessarily of good value.
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Alternative form of tourist trap [(derogatory) An establishment, such as a shop or display, where tourists are encouraged to spend money on goods or services not necessarily of good value.]
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Alternative spelling of tuck shop [(UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, India) A shop selling confectionery, especially one in or near a school.]
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A place for storing large amounts of products. In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.
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Alternative spelling of webshop [A sales outlet which supplies goods or services over the World Wide Web.]
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A person whose occupation is weighing goods.
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(US) A shop selling miscellanea.
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Alternative form of window-shopping [(idiomatic) The browsing of shop windows without any intention of buying.]
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(sports) The state that the participant (skier, snowboarder, skateboarder, cyclist, etc.) and their equipment is in after a nasty crash, whereupon they and their equipment is laid out across the ground like pieces of a yard sale.
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Alternative spelling of yard sale. [(US) A sale of used household goods held on the seller's own premises.]
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