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| coffee shop |
A coffee shop is a small restaurant that serves coffee, snacks, and light meals. It also serves other beverages like tea, soda, and juice. A coffee shop has tables, but it often has a counter where people can eat too. |
| consumer |
A consumer is a person who buys goods or services. When you shop in a grocery store, you are a consumer. If your mom pays someone to fix the roof of your house, she is a consumer. She is buying a service from the person who comes to fix the roof. |
| deli |
A deli is a shop that sells cooked meats, cheeses, and other foods that are ready to eat. Some grocery stores have a department that sells these things, and it is called a "deli" too. The word "deli" is short for the word "delicatessen." |
| delicatessen |
a shop that sells cheese, cooked meats, and other food that is ready to eat. |
| foreman |
the leader of a group of workers in a factory, shop, or other workplace. [1/2 definitions] |
| grocery store |
a store in which food and other supplies for the household are sold. A grocery store can be a small shop in one's neighborhood or a large supermarket. |
| hardware store |
A hardware store is a shop that sells tools and equipment made of metal. It also sells other types of tools, paints, and other things that are needed to fix or build things. |
| lower1 |
If you lower something, you make it less than it was before. When a shop lowers its prices, it means that the shop makes their prices less than before. [1/4 definitions] |
| mall |
A mall is a large place where people go to shop, eat, or sometimes just to have fun. There are many stores and restaurants, and everything is usually under one big roof. A mall can also be an outdoor shopping or walking area where cars are not allowed to go. [1/2 definitions] |
| market |
to buy in a market; shop. [1/4 definitions] |
| merchant |
an owner of a shop. [1/3 definitions] |
| name |
If a certain doctor has a good name in town, it means that they are well-known in town for being a good doctor. If a certain car repair shop has a bad name, it means that the place is known for not being a good place to bring your car. [1/5 definitions] |
| patron |
a regular customer of a shop, restaurant, or some other business. [1/2 definitions] |
| patronize |
to shop at or use the services of regularly. [1/2 definitions] |
| shop |
A shop is a small store where you can buy things. There are many kinds of shops. [3/4 definitions] |
| site |
"Site" is a short way of saying "website." A website is where you can go on a computer to learn things, play games, shop, look at pictures, and do many other things using the internet. [1/3 definitions] |
| stand |
a counter, stall, or movable shop where customers can walk up and buy things. A stand is usually outdoors. [1/16 definitions] |
| studio |
a photographer's shop. [1/5 definitions] |
| variety |
If a factory makes a variety of products, it makes a number of different products, not just one kind of product. If an ice cream shop sells a large variety of ice cream flavors, they sell many different flavors. If a grocery store has a variety of fruits, there are many different kinds of fruits there. [1/3 definitions] |
| website |
A website is where you can go on a computer to learn things, play games, shop, look at pictures, watch movies, and do many other things. |
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