different between corporation vs shop

English

Etymology

From Late Latin corporatio (“assumption of a body”), from Latin corporatus, past participle of corporare (“to form into a body”); see corporate.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??p???e???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??p???e???n/

Noun

corporation (plural corporations)

1. A body corporate, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
2. The municipal governing body of a borough or city.
3. (historical) In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
4. (slang, dated, humorous) A protruding belly (perhaps a play on the word corpulence).

   Synonym: paunch

   • 1918, Katherine Mansfield, ‘Prelude’, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 91:

     'You'd be surprised,' said Stanley, as though this were intensely interesting, 'at the number of chaps at the club who have got a corporation.'

   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 316:

     He was a big chap with a corporation already, and a flat face rather like Dora's, and he had a thin black moustache.

   • 2001, Jamie O’Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, London: Scribner, Part 2, Chapter 20, p. 620,^[2]

     The sergeant was a goner. There was only one way to save him, and he threw himself on top, hurling the man to the ground. He lay covering his corporation with as much as his body and limbs would allow.

Derived terms

• British Broadcasting Corporation
• corporation tax

Hyponyms

• (body corporate): public limited company (UK)

Related terms

• corporate
• incorporate

Translations

Further reading

• corporation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• corporation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

Noun

corporation f (plural corporations)

1. corporation
2. guild

English

Etymology

From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English s?eoppa, s?oppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with Dutch schop (“spade, kick”), German Schuppen (“shed”), German Schober (“barn”), French échoppe (“booth, shop”) (< Germanic).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??p/
• (US) enPR: shäp, IPA^(key): /??p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

shop (countable and uncountable, plural shops)

1. An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.

   • From shop to shop / Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks / The polished counter.

2. A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
3. A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
4. Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
5. (figuratively, uncountable) Discussion of business or professional affairs.
6. A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
7. An establishment where a barber or beautician works.

   a barber shop

8. An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.

   This is where I do my weekly shop.

Synonyms

• (establishment that sells goods): boutique, retail outlet, store (US); see also Thesaurus:retail store
• (place where things are crafted): atelier, studio, workshop
• (automobile mechanic's workplace): garage
• (workplace): office, place of work, workplace
• (wood shop): carpentry, wood shop, woodwork
• (metal shop): metal shop, metalwork

Derived terms

Related terms

• shoppe

Descendants

Translations

Verb

shop (third-person singular simple present shops, present participle shopping, simple past and past participle shopped)

1. (intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.

   I went shopping early before the Christmas rush.

   He’s shopping for clothes.

2. (transitive) To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.).

   Shop our new arrivals.

   • 1988, Sylvia Harney, Married beyond recognition: a humorous look at marriage (page 90)

     You fantasized about having unhurried afternoons before the baby arrived to leisurely shop your favorite boutiques. Then the first crash hits — you no longer have the money to shop your favorite boutiques.

3. (transitive, slang, chiefly Britain) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.

   He shopped his mates in to the police.

4. (transitive, slang, chiefly Britain) To imprison.
5. (transitive, Internet slang) To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.

Synonyms

• (to report a criminal to authority): grass up (slang)

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Interjection

shop

1. (dated) Used to attract the services of a shop assistant

Further reading

• shop at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Hosp., OHPs, PHOs, Posh, Soph, hops, hosp, phos, posh, soph

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English shop.

Pronunciation

Noun

shop m (plural shops, diminutive shopje n)

1. shop

   Synonym: winkel

Derived terms

• koffieshop

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English shop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??op/, [??o?p]

Noun

shop

1. (Anglism) Alternative form of shoppi (establishment that sells goods or services to the public).

Declension