a place, business, where goods are shown and sold; to go to shops to buy things
place of retail business
Cases of word usage
1) a small shop selling articles (clothes, cosmetics, shoes, jewellery etc) of the latest fashion (boutique)
2) a uniformed porter at the entrance to a hotel, large shop etc (commissionaire)
3) a person who buys things (regularly) from a shop etc (customer)
4) a (part of a) shop where milk, butter, eggs etc are sold (dairy)
5) a shop selling prepared foods (e.g. cooked meat, smoked fish, pickles) (delicatessen)
6) a large (food) shop (emporium)
7) a short journey to take or get something e.g. to buy goods from a shop (errand)
8) a woman who controls a business etc, especially a shop (manageress)
9) a failure to hit, catch, reach, see etc; (used in front of the name of an unmarried woman or girl who has no other titles) 'Miss Smith'; (used by children to a female teacher, to a shop assistant etc) 'Good morning, miss!' (miss)
10) an ordinary sitting-room for the family in a private house (now called a sitting-room or living-room); (especially US) a shop (parlour)