(n.) A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.
(n.) A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.
(v. i.) To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
(2) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(3) The M&S Current Account, which has no monthly fee, is available from 15 May and is offering people the chance to bank and shop under one roof.
(4) Half the bullet got me and the other half went into a shop window across the road.
(5) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
(6) Shop staff must be trained in the procedure and a record kept of the training.
(7) The ceremony is the much-anticipated shop window for the Games, and Boyle was brought in to provide the creative vision.
(8) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
(9) Given how Bank forecasts have been all over the shop, it is possible that the Old Lady's spreadsheet wizards could scupper Mr Carney's plans by spying a speck of price pressure and panicking about it turning into a giant inflationary boulder.
(10) The company abandoned plans to build a second savoury factory in the East Midlands, as well as its Greggs Moment coffee shops which it had been trialling since 2011.
(11) Although 400 positions have been saved , a further 425 shop workers and head office staff have definitely lost their jobs.
(12) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
(13) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
(14) The last time I saw Ruqayah was in the summer of 2014, in a chain cafe in Cairo’s largest shopping mall.
(15) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(16) The rioting began on Wednesday after a deadly argument between a Muslim gold shop owner and his Buddhist customers in Meikhtila.
(17) The Butcher’s Arms Herne Facebook Twitter Pinterest Martyn Hillier at the Butcher’s Arms Now a place of pilgrimage and inspiration, the Butcher’s Arms was established by Martyn Hillier in 2005 when he opened for business in the three-metre by four-metre front room of a former butcher’s shop.
(18) Raindrops on Roses Photograph: Felix Clay This boutique style, high-end gift shop in St Albans is one of a new breed of charity shops.
(19) To mark World Aids Day, THT is opening a charity shop in Soho Estates’ Walkers Court development in central Soho.
(20) It adds that the number of deals signed in relation to betting shops alone in 2012-13 was 77% greater than the number signed in in 2007-08.
Shopkeeper
Definition:
(n.) A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale.
Example Sentences:
(1) Everyone had something to say about the events, from professors to shopkeepers.
(2) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
(3) "There were 85 others in my police cell, mostly young people," said the young shopkeeper held in police station No 14.
(4) "Some people pulled me out from the rubble," said shopkeeper Sharifuddin Aurfan, who was wounded.
(5) Shopkeepers said they were afraid to open after gunmen believed to be working for the Knights Templar cartel threw firebombs at several of the city's businesses and city hall over the weekend.
(6) The scale of the destruction in Birmingham, Manchester and Salford shocked morning commuters and prompted shopkeepers fearful of a repeat performance to board up premises at lunchtime.
(7) Small shopkeepers have called on the government to include them in plans to introduce a mandatory 5p charge on plastic carrier bags next year.
(8) Photograph: tom phillips for the Guardian “It’s not been good for us,” complained Wu Yuhua, a 42-year-old shopkeeper from Jiangxi province who was preparing to leave the city until the G20 roadshow had moved on.
(9) The tourists ambling down Ledra Street in the hot midday sun are a welcome sight – and not just for crisis-hit Cyprus's shopkeepers.
(10) Hundreds of shopkeepers and restaurant owners from Calais held a protest in Paris on 7 March to complain that they have suffered heavy losses as a result of the presence of migrants in the port.
(11) James Agate (1877‑1947) started out as a Manchester cotton merchant, moved to London as a shopkeeper, then rose to prominence as the most brilliant theatre critic of his day.
(12) She rather loved being a shopkeeper, perhaps because it gave her a rest from writing.
(13) It’s been a long time since I saw him last.” The shopkeeper, 79, said no one had been in the barbershop since at least Tuesday and it had now closed.
(14) "A toxic mix of gold, greed and alcohol has resulted in a spate of brutal murders in the interior," the newspaper reported, cataloguing killings involving miners, jewellers and shopkeepers working at the gold mines.
(15) Shopkeepers have placed oil drums on the pavement to try to put some distance between themselves and any blast.
(16) And, as every shopkeeper will tell you, a huge sector of our economy depends on this.
(17) Fellow shopkeepers, she said, woke up yesterday to find their stock bobbing about in high waters.
(18) The UK is just as much a nation of shopkeepers as a vanguard of cutting-edge capitalism."
(19) Anna, a shopkeeper whose store was hit by a shell on Monday, said she did not believe the ceasefire would last.
(20) From the largest supermarkets to the most modest corner store or market stall, shopkeepers will be compelled to charge customers at least 5p for the convenience of taking their goods home in a disposable bag.