Shop in spanish
pronunciation: tiendɑ part of speech: noun
shop1 = tienda, comercio, negocio, taller.
Example: In strong contrast to, say, television sets and instant coffee, where the consumer may save by shopping around, there is no advantage to be gained by going to one shop rather than another for a book so far as price is concerned.more:
» antique(s) shop = anticuario, tienda de antigüedades.
Example: Frequently many antique shops will be clustered together in nearby locations.» arms shop = armería.
Example: Police raided an arms shop on a tip off and arrested three suspects who were trying to sell the rockets and launchers.» back shop = trastienda.
Example: The differences in average earnings between back shops and front shops may be explained by the fact that work in the back shops is somewhat more arduous than in the front shops.» barbershop = barbería, peluquería de caballeros, peluquería de hombres.
Example: Lindy had a number of businesses, including a hardware shop, a barbershop, an ice-cream parlor, a blacksmith shop, and an electrical appliances store.» barber's shop = barbería, peluquería de caballeros, peluquería de hombres.
Example: Sometimes librarians have to explain to enquirers who will almost certainly not believe them that ostriches do not put their heads in the sand, that in Britain at least, doctors do not take the Hippocratic oath, and that both the yeti and Sweeney Todd's baber's shop are fiction.» betting shop = casa de apuestas, corredor de apuestas.
Example: We believe that an increase in betting shops is related to an increase in crime.» blacksmith shop = herrería.
Example: Lindy had a number of businesses, including a hardware shop, a barbershop, an ice-cream parlor, a blacksmith shop, and an electrical appliances store.» bookseller's shop = librería.
Example: A lecture room, a bookseller's shop and a snack bar will be added later to the library.» bookshop [book shop] = librería.
Example: For small collections document arrangement may be the only retrieval device available, particularly in bookshops, small public libraries and small specialist collections.» bucket shop = agencia de viajes de precios baratos.
Example: Bucket shops negotiate contracts with airlines to sell a set number of tickets below normal retail prices.» butcher's shop = carnicería, charcutería.
Example: Other activities involve students in taking field trips to the local greengrocery and/or butcher's shop, and listening to nurses, consumer activists and othe guest speakers.» charity shop = tienda benéfica. [Tienda que vende productos donados de segunda mano y cuyos beneficios se dedican a obras de caridad]
Example: Wearing a wedding gown from a charity shop is very voguish right now.» closed shop = coto cerrado. [Empresa que por decisión de los trabajadores sólo contrata a personas que se inscriban a un sindicato concreto]
Example: The Taft-Hartley Act outlawed closed shops, jurisdictional strikes, sympathy strikes, and refusal to bargain.» close shop = empresa en la que sólo pueden trabajar empleados que pertenezcan a un sindicato determinado.
Example: The closed shop (an industry or organization in which employers may hire only union members) is illegal, as is the union shop (where union membership is mandatory for all employees included in a bargaining unit).» close up + shop = cerrar el negocio.
Example: When Kodak got into difficulties, they closed up shop in north Toronto and demolished all of their buildings.» coffee shop = cafetería.
Example: The services of the library, bookstore, and coffee shop were judged adequate by over 60%.» copy shop = fotocopiadora.
Example: An environment which recognises that copy machines are not free and that copy shops expect to be paid, but which gives short shrift to the intellectual property being copied, damages all in the information chain.» corner shop, the = tienda de la esquina, la; tienda de barrio. [Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo]
Example: An important point which arises from this research is that using some applications software would be a case of 'overkill', or, to use an analogy, of using a Rolls-Royce to pop down to the corner shop!.» craft shop = tienda de artesanía, tienda artesanal.
Example: Each village had its own church, school, bakery, dairy, wine cellar, craft shops and general store.» DIY shop = tienda de bricolaje.
Example: We have comprehensive listings of DIY shops all over England and the UK.» dressmaker's shop = modista, modistería.
Example: Marta works in a dressmaker's shop for a lady who is sympathetic and who does her best to help Marta.» dressmaking shop = modista, modistería.
Example: Women of means or with some skill opened businesses: dressmaking shops, stables and even blacksmith shops.» dress shop = tienda de ropa.
Example: Bookselling does seem to attract to it people who would seem to be prepared to work as shop assistants in bookshops who would not consider working as assistants in, say, grocer's or dress shops.» duty-free shop = tienda libre de impuestos.
Example: Articles sold in a duty-free shop are free of taxes only for the country in which that shop is located.» electrical appliances shop = eléctrica, tienda de electricidad.
Example: The shopping mall will accommodate a full complement of shops from pharmacies to banks, to restaurants, clothing stores and electrical appliances shops.» electrical equipment shop = eléctrica, tienda de electricidad.
Example: They cost around £10 and can be bought at most supermarkets, DIY stores and electrical equipment shops.» electrical goods shop = eléctrica, tienda de electricidad.
Example: He was brought up in Southampton but spent much of his childhood on the Isle of Wight where his father had an electrical goods shop.» electrical shop = eléctrica, tienda de electricidad.
Example: The electronics and electrical shops listed on this page have their own site online, where you can buy electronics and electrical items directly.» electric shop = eléctrica, tienda de electricidad.
Example: There are many kinds of plugs used in Nepal and the best thing for you to do is stop in at an electric shop in Kathmandu and for 50 rupees they will make an adaptor for you.» electronics shop = electrónica, tienda de electrónica.
Example: The electronics and electrical shops listed on this page have their own site online, where you can buy electronics and electrical items directly.» fish and chips shop = tienda de pescado y patatas fritas. [Muy populares en las Islas Británicas y en algunos otros países de influencia británica. A vcces abreviado como chippy]
Example: We've no shortage of great fish and chips shops so, we've compiled a list of the best chippies for you to sample at your own discretion.» fishmonger's shop = pescadería.
Example: The oldest fishmonger's shop in Sheffield is back in business after being refloated.» fold up + shop = cerrar, cerrar el negocio.
Example: Why talented and passionate business people so often fold up shop while their less talented, less skilled brethren continue to thrive.» food shop = tienda de comestibles, tienda de ultramarinos.
Example: By the 2000s the convenience of supermarkets had caused the demise of many small food shops.» front shop = tienda. [Como opuesto a back shop (trastienda)]
Example: The differences in average earnings between back shops and front shops may be explained by the fact that work in the back shops is somewhat more arduous than in the front shops.» fruit shop = frutería.
Example: This area is well known to Singaporeans for its good food, fruit shops and exciting night life.» furniture shop = mueblería, tienda de muebles.
Example: And even if you are very well traveled, you will be hard-pushed to think of a place with more interior designers and furniture shops than here.» gift shop = tienda de artículos para regalo, tienda de regalos.
Example: Many tourist offices, in addition to offering brochures and booking services, are also gift shops.» go to + the shops = ir de tiendas, ir de compras.
Example: When I told her my plans to go to the shops, she said she could drop me off, even though it was out of her way.» gourmet food shop = tienda de delicatesen.
Example: It is considered premium quality and is often found in gourmet food shops.» grocer's shop = verdulería.
Example: Bookselling does seem to attract to it people who would seem to be prepared to work as shop assistants in bookshops who would not consider working as assistants in, say, grocer's or dress shops.» gun shop = armería.
Example: This stylish cafe, situated in a heritage-listed building that used to be a gun shop, offers original, restaurant-quality fare.» haberdasher's shop = mercería.
Example: It is a wonderful satisfaction to be able to pick up a new zip at a haberdasher's shop and fix the problem yourself.» hardware shop = ferretería.
Example: Lindy had a number of businesses, including a hardware shop, a barbershop, an ice-cream parlor, a blacksmith shop, and an electrical appliances store.» hatter's shop = sombrerería, tienda de sombreros.
Example: In my father's time I'd say there were about twenty hatter's shops -- now we're down to one.» health food shop = ecotienda, tienda de productos ecológicos, tienda de alimentos naturales.
Example: There has been a health food shop on this site for 30 years but it changed ownership and name in August 2005.» hock shop [hockshop] = casa de empeño.
Example: IN 1999, David Zinberg took jewelry from a handful of his hock shops and began auctioning them online.» ironmonger's shop = ferretería.
Example: Once an ironmonger's shop and now a trendy restaurant, this charming bistro is visited regularly by famous people from all over Europe.» jewellery shop = joyería.
Example: The robbers made a hole in the wall separating the two shops to gain access to the jewellery shop and make off with the loot.» like a bull in a china shop = como un elefante en una cacharrería, como un toro en una tienda de porcelana.
Example: He can really be like a bull in a china shop -- he really lacks tact .» like an elephant in a china shop = como un elefante en una cacharrería, como un toro en una tienda de porcelana.
Example: Lieberman is conducting himself like an elephant in a china shop and is inflicting strategic damage on Israel's interests.» machine shop = taller, taller de máquinas.
Example: The questionnaire was then sent to machine shops throughout the State of Oklahoma.» mall of shops = centro comercial, galería de tiendas, grande superficie.
Example: However, a more advantageous site was offered, right in the shopping precinct, linking a covered mall of shops with a multi-functional community complex.» mechanic shop = taller, taller mecánico, taller de mecánica, garaje mecánico, garaje.
Example: Operated well, your mechanic shop can be quite lucrative through good times and bad.» metal shop = metalistería.
Example: A review indicated that in almost every case, these were students who, in past years, would have taken courses in the wood and metal shops.» metal-shop bench = banco de mecánico.
Example: I have used the following as structures on which to mount displays: art-room drawing tables and sketch boards, metal- and woodwork-shop benches and materials, tailor's dummies and stage platforms.» newsagent's shop = tienda de periódicos.
Example: Even in tobacconists' and newsagents' shops there are plenty of examples to be seen of those books which are commonly referred to as 'coffee-table' books.» novelty shop = tienda de novedades, tienda de artículos para regalo, tienda de regalos.
Example: Novelty shops for pets are sprouting around Taiwan as more people are willing to spend more on their animals.» one stop shop = un centro único, una única fuente para Algo, fuente donde se puede encontrar todo sobre Algo. [En biblioteconomía se utiliza para referirse a un servicio a través del cual se puede acceder a toda la información pertinente a un tema de tal modo que el usuario no tenga que buscar en otros sitios]
Example: The service was initiated in 1992 to provide a local 'one stop shop' access to business support and information services for every firm in England = El servicio se inició en 1992 para ofrecer un única fuente de acceso local de apoyo empresarial y de servicios de información para todas las empresas de Inglaterra.» patronise + shop = frecuentar una tienda, ser cliente de una tienda, comprar regularmente en una tienda.
Example: Some children are prepared to patronize the shop, and use it in quite a different way, when they find the library (however well run) stuffy or off-putting.» pawnshop = casa de empeño.
Example: Fortunately, banks have successfully weaned people away from pawnshops and moneylenders.» pet shop = tienda de animales, tienda de mascotas.
Example: Many times these millipedes are found in pet shops where they are full of mites.» print shop = imprenta, taller de imprenta, taller de impresión.
Example: The only feminist print shop in North America has closed down after 23 years.» record shop = tienda de discos.
Example: This is a sad state of affairs when you can't find a record shop that sells singles!.» reject shop = tienda de artículos defectuosos.
Example: This is like one of those reject shops where you pay $2 and get things cheap but they last 5 seconds.» retail shop = tienda, establecimiento comercial, pequeño comercio.
Example: Books were advertised in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by means of printed publishers' lists, which were carried about by salesmen and were probably put up in retail shops.» seafood shop = pescadería.
Example: I saw the seafood shops with live crabs scrambling around in a bucket and fresh fish stacked on ice.» second-hand clothes shop = tienda de ropa de segunda mano, tienda de ropa usada.
Example: One of the advantages of living in Mayfair is the quality of second-hand clothes shops.» sex shop = sex-shop, tienda erótica.
Example: The owners of the first registered sex shop in Nepal say it is flourishing, despite the country's conservative nature.» shoe repair shop = taller de reparación de zapatos.
Example: Displays and exhibits include folk art and portraiture, fireams and militia accouterments, blacksmith shop, shoe repair shop, cooperage, gardens of culinary and medicinal herbs, and much more.» shoe shop = zapatería.
Example: Consider, for example, the work of the shoe shop manager and the way he arranges his stock of shoes.» shopaholic = comprador compulsivo, comprador obsesivo.
Example: A self-proclaimed 'shopaholic', Nancy Strohmeyer, gives the reader an inside look at some of her many collections, including books, figurines, and stuffed animals.» shop assistant = dependiente.
Example: A table is set up in a classroom, books are laid out on it by pupil 'shop assistants' supervised by a rota of teachers, and regular opening hours are laid down and adhered to.» shop-based = orientado hacia las tiendas.
Example: The very breadth of publishing is, seen this way, too much for the shop-based book selling system.» shop chain = cadena comercial.
Example: Dunkin' Donuts of America, Inc., the world's largest retail coffee and doughnut shop chain, uses the Informark system supplied by NDS a software package containing a demographic file of data from the 1980 USA Census and other commercial data bases.» shop floor = taller.
Example: The system is being used daily on the shop floor and has virtually eliminated the production of low quality parts that must be scrapped.» shop floor = obreros, trabajadores.
Example: The system requires close cooperation between the library and shop floor.» shop-front [shopfront] = frontal de la tienda.
Example: But in the country the processes of printing always provoke such lively curiosity that the customers preferred to go in by a glazed door set in the shop-front and giving onto the street.» shop-front [shopfront] = situado en la calle comercial.
Example: This was a spur to several other London boroughs who set up shop-front consumer advice centres from 1972.» shopkeeper [shop-keeper] = dependiente, tendero.
Example: A librarian should be as unwilling to allow an enquirer to leave the library with his question unanswered as a shop-keeper is to have a customer go out of his store without making a purchase.» shoplift = robar en una tienda, hurtar en una tienda.
Example: He caught a kid shoplifting in his store, gave him a good cuff on the side of his head and kicked him out the door.» shoplifter = persona que hurta en tiendas, persona que roba en tiendas, ladrón de tiendas.
Example: This article outlines the best practices for spotting, stopping and legally detaining a shoplifter.» shoplifting = hurto en tienda.
Example: A recent law in Virginia does provide separate consideration for library theft and introduces the relatively new legal concepts from shoplifting legislation.» shopper = comprador.
Example: Multimedia data bases can be used as guides for shoppers.» shop steward = representante sindical.
Example: In industry this individual is known as the steward, or shop steward.» shop talk = conversación de trabajo.
Example: On the whole, user-oriented objectives guide the everyday operations, while supplier-oriented objectives are reserved for journal articles, convention shop talk, and other in-group communication.» shopwindow [shop window] = escaparate.
Example: We can learn from good shopwindow displays and from the best museums about such matters as grouping of books shown and the number included (clutter is ugly and overcrowding confuses the eye).» smoothie shop = tienda de batidos.
Example: Most burger joints, chicken places and smoothie shops link their star product to their name.» souvenir shop = tienda de regalos, tienda de recuerdos.
Example: The novel begins as the heroine leaves Tennessee and settles in a northern Florida beach town, where she gets a job at a souvenir shop during the town's off-season.» swap shop = sesión de intercambio. [Actividad de intercambio de ideas, tebeos, etc., propiedad de los lectores organizada en y por la biblioteca]
Example: Another activities organized by the library are comic, jigsaw, knitting and dressmaking swap shops.» sweatshop = taller de trabajo esclavo. [Generalemente, taller de fabricación de prendas de vestir que reúne unas condiciones de trabajo ínfimas y donde se explota a los trabajadores]
Example: The article 'From the sweatshop to the high-tech cubicle' is a contribution to a special issue devoted in part to space planning for technical services.» talk + shop = hablar del trabajo.
Example: The article 'IBF talking shop' reports the annual general assembly of the International Booksellers Federation (IBF) held in Edinburgh in June 94.» thrift shop = tienda benéfica.
Example: Thrift shops are an excellent way to find cheap shoes, clothes, and antiques for a bargain!.» tobacconist's shop = estanco, tabacalera.
Example: Even in tobacconists' and newsagents' shops there are plenty of examples to be seen of those books which are commonly referred to as 'coffee-table' books.» toy shop = tienda de juguetes.
Example: These toy shops may be small, but they compete with the biggest retailers every holiday season and thrive.» trade union shop steward = representante sindical.
Example: The commercial library is as open to the business man as it is to the trade union shop steward who may be preparing a case against his employer.» union shop = empresa sindicada. [Empresa en la que es obligatorio pertenecer a un sindicato para poder trabajar]
Example: The closed shop (an industry or organization in which employers may hire only union members) is illegal, as is the union shop (where union membership is mandatory for all employees included in a bargaining unit).» video rental shop = videoclub.
Example: Just as libraries can exist alongside bookshops and video rental shops, so there is room for both libraries and private enterprise in the computer area.» video shop = videoclub.
Example: Lenton has lots of takeaways, off-licenses, pubs, a cinema, video shop, florist and a number of locally owned businesses.» wood shop = carpintería.
Example: A review indicated that in almost every case, these were students who, in past years, would have taken courses in the wood and metal shops.» woodwork-shop bench = banco de carpintero.
Example: I have used the following as structures on which to mount displays: art-room drawing tables and sketch boards, metal- and woodwork-shop benches and materials, tailor's dummies and stage platforms.» workshop = taller de trabajo, jornada de trabajo, seminario.
Example: He has served on a wide variety of professional committees and has spoken at several workshops.» workshop = tienda, taller.
Example: The customers preferred to go in by a glazed door set in the shop-front and giving onto the street, even though this meant going down some steps, the floor of the workshop being below road-level.shop2 = comprar.
Example: Before shopping for a new computer, you should make a plan detailing what you can afford, what you expect to do with the computer, and how much the computer is worth to you.more:
» comparison shop = comparar precios.
Example: In addition, patrons use libraries to research consumer information to comparison-shop for major purchases, such as cars, boats, and appliances.» shop around = comprar comparando productos.
Example: In strong contrast to, say, television sets and instant coffee, where the consumer may save by shopping around, there is no advantage to be gained by going to one shop rather than another for a book so far as price is concerned.» shop 'til you drop = comprar hasta caer muerto, comprar hasta reventar.
Example: The article is entitled 'Shop 'til your modem drops. Internet shopping network is making strides as it learns how to sell in cyberspace'.» window shop = ir a ver escaparates, ir a mirar escaparates, ir de escaparates, mirar escaparates, ir the tiendas.
Example: You have to visit Venice, even if, like me, you can only afford to window shop.