Shop vs. Enterprise — What's the Difference?

Also shoppe A small retail store or a specialty department in a large store.

A project or undertaking, especially a bold or complex one

An atelier; a studio.

A business or company

A place for manufacturing or repairing goods or machinery.

An undertaking, especially one of some scope, complication, and risk.

A commercial or industrial establishment

A business organization.

A business establishment; an office or a center of activity.

Industrious, systematic activity, especially when directed toward profit

A home workshop.

Willingness to undertake new ventures; initiative

A schoolroom fitted with machinery and tools for instruction in industrial arts.

A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.

The industrial arts as a technical science or course of study.

An undertaking, venture, or project, especially a daring and courageous one.

To visit stores in search of merchandise or bargains.

(uncountable) A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative.

To look for something with the intention of acquiring it.

(uncountable) Active participation in projects. en

To visit or buy from (a particular store).

(intransitive) To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.

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

(transitive) To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.

A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.

(transitive) To treat with hospitality; to entertain.

A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.

That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise.

Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.

Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise.

Discussion of business or professional affairs.

To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.

A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.

To treat with hospitality; to entertain.

An establishment where a barber or beautician works.

To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.

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

A purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness);

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

An organization created for business ventures;

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

Readiness to embark on bold new ventures

To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.

To imprison.

To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.

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

A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.

A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.

A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; - sometimes in deprecation or disapproval; as, to talk shop at a party. Also used attributively, as in shop talk.

A place where any industry is carried on; as, a chemist's shop;

Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc.

The group of workers and the activities controlled by an administrator; as, to have five people in one's shop.

To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.

A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services;

Small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done

A course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity);

Do one's shopping;

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

Shop around; not necessarily buying;

Give away information about somebody;