SHOP AT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shop at mean? 

• SHOP AT (verb)
  The verb SHOP AT has 1 sense:

1. do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of

  Familiarity information: SHOP AT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHOP AT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

buy at; frequent; patronise; patronize; shop; shop at; sponsor

Hypernyms (to "shop at" is one way to...):

back up; support (give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Alternatively, shop at the end of March.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The morning had worn away in these inquiries, and I was sitting on the step of an empty shop at a street corner, near the market-place, deliberating upon wandering towards those other places which had been mentioned, when a fly-driver, coming by with his carriage, dropped a horsecloth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I doubt not that if I set you down in my shop at Norwich you might scarce tell fustian from falding, and know little difference between the velvet of Genoa and the three-piled cloth of Bruges.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)