(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.
Tobacconist
Definition:
(n.) A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.
(n.) A smoker of tobacco.
Example Sentences:
(1) France’s tobacconists are protesting against plans to force cigarette companies to use plain, unbranded packaging by disabling traffic speed cameras.
(2) While the tobacconists have preferred direct action, tobacco manufacturers are taking the legal route, reporting the legislation to the European court of justice.
(3) James Yu, who runs the King of the Pack tobacconist in central Sydney, said the uniform packaging made it harder to stack his shelves "It used to take me an hour to unload a delivery, now it takes me four hours," Yu said.
(4) The cat was taken in by Yoichi Maeda, a local editor, who asked the tobacconist’s owner, Kaori Hasegawa, to look after her during the day in the hope that she would bring some luck to local businesses affected by the disaster.
(5) BFM TV showed a group of tobacconists wearing white masks on a night-time radar-hooding expedition.
(6) The confederation claims there are nearly 27,000 tobacconists in France, more than half of them operating as bars, employing a total of 100,000 people.
(7) In other parts of the country, furious tobacconists put plastic bags over traffic cameras with the slogan: “Getting rid of tobacconists will not reduce smoking.
(8) Luther Pendragon's Brussels office has also been working for the European Retailers and Tobacconists Association.
(9) French tobacconists dump four tonnes of carrots on street in cigarette protest Read more Nine years ago, France controversially banned smoking in enclosed public spaces , including bars and restaurants.
(10) He is especially eloquent on the latter’s performance as Abel Drugger, the easily tricked tobacconist in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist.
(11) It may be the year of the monkey in Japan , but people from across the country are reportedly flocking to a tiny tobacconist north of Tokyo for an encounter with a cat that has ”lucky eyebrows”.
(12) Shops (except specialist tobacconists), shopping centres and markets.
(13) But yesterday René Le Pape, president of the tobacconists' confederation, said bars and cafes would need more than a year to prepare, and warned that the ban would destroy small country businesses.
(14) He drifted through dead-end jobs – stable boy, farm hand, errand boy, pawnbroker's clerk, leather worker, tobacconist and gents' outfitter's assistant – maintaining afterwards that the only one that gave him satisfaction was the tobacconist's kiosk in Piccadilly, where he bought American cigarettes from a US sergeant and sold them profitably to selected customers.
(15) After dumping the vegetables against the gates of the party headquarters at Rue de Solférino at 6.30am, the tobacconists marched to the health ministry en route to the Sénat to demand that senators throw out the law, which the government intends to introduce next year.. On Wednesday afternoon, French senators took out the clause requiring plain cigarette and tobacco packets.Instead, passed an amendment requiring health warnings to be made larger, in keeping with a European Union directive.
(16) Angry French tobacconists have dumped four tonnes of carrots outside the ruling Socialist party’s headquarters in Paris in protest at plans to force the introduction of plain cigarette packets.
(17) The Confédération des Buralistes – the tobacconists’ union – chose the carrot because it resembles the sign outside French shops selling cigarettes.