Shop
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something. To report the criminal or otherwise wrong activities or whereabouts of (a suspect) to an authority. Shorthand for photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
Part of speech: interjection
Definition: Used to attract the services of a shop assistant
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well. A place where things are crafted; a workshop or hobbyshop. An automobile mechanic's workplace. Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor. Short for wood shop or metal shop, classes taught typically in junior high school, teaching vocational skill. In information technology, describes the programming languages or software an organisation uses, usually exclusively; "our company is mostly a Java shop".
Example sentence: Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the spot, and if not fully satisfied, return the product to the shop or replace it with a new and improved one! You don't, after all, stick to your car, or computer, or iPod, when better ones appear.
Patronise
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To make a patronTo treat as inferior unduly, talk down to, treat condescendingly.To make oneself a regular customer of a business.