Shop vs Department - What's the difference?
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An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
* Cowper
A place where things are crafted; a workshop or hobbyshop.
* Shakespeare
An automobile mechanic's workplace.
Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk'', ''closed shop'' and ''shop floor .
A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
(business, computing) an organisation using specified programming languages or software, often exclusively.
An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
To visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something.
(transitive, slang, chiefly, UK) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
(internet slang) Shorthand for photoshop ; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
A part, portion, or subdivision.
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
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A subdivision of an organization.
# One of the principal divisions of executive government
# One of the divisions of instructions
A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes.
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(label) A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
(label) Act of departing; departure.
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As nouns the difference between shop and department
is that shop is an establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well while department is a part, portion, or subdivision.As a verb shop
is to visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something.As an interjection shop
is (used to attract the services of a shop assistant).shop
English
Noun
(en noun)- From shop' to ' shop / Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks / The polished counter.
- A tailor called me in his shop .
- Our company is mostly a Java shop .
- This is where I do my weekly shop .
Synonyms
* (establishment that sells goods) boutique, retail outlet, store (US); see also * (place where things are crafted) atelier, studio, workshop * (sense, automobile mechanic's workplace) garage * (workplace) office, place of work, workplace * (wood shop) carpentry, wood shop, woodwork * (metal shop) metal shop, metalworkDerived terms
* beauty shop * bucket shop * charity shop * chip shop * close up shop * coffee shop * cop shop * corner shop * food shop * gift shop * like a bull in a china shop * one-stop shop * op shop * pawn shop * pet shop * Photoshop® * pound shop * repair shop * sex shop * shoe shop * shopaholic * shop assistant * shopfloor * shopfront * shopgirl * shophouse * shopkeep * shopkeeper * shopman * shop right * shop steward * shop talk * shopward * shopwards * shopworn * shut up shop * swap shop * sweet shop, sweet-shop, sweetshop * wood shop * workshopVerb
(shopp)- I went shopping early, before the Christmas rush.
- He’s shopping for clothes .
- He shopped his mates in to the police.
Synonyms
* (to report a criminal to authority) grass up (slang)Derived terms
* shop around * shopper * shop till you drop * window shoppingAnagrams
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English
Noun
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- the physics department'''''; ''the gender studies '''department
- The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed.
- sudden 'departments from one extreme to another