Usually means: Retail outlets selling specific goods.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word shops:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. shops: Merriam-Webster
  2. shops: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shops: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shops: Vocabulary.com
  5. Shop's, Shops, shop's, shops: Wordnik
  6. shops: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. shops: Wiktionary
  8. shops: Dictionary.com
  9. shops: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Shops (LIRR station): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. shops: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. shops: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. shops: Legal dictionary
  3. shops: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shops: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shops: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SHOPS: Acronym Finder
  2. shops: Idioms

(Note: See shop as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Shop)

noun:  An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
noun:  A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
noun:  A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
noun:  Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
noun:  (figurative, uncountable) Discussion of business or professional affairs.
noun:  A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skills.
noun:  An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
noun:  An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
noun:  (UK, colloquial) The collective items bought (or to be bought) on a shopping trip.
verb:  (intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.
verb:  (transitive) To browse or purchase products from (a catalog, an internet website, etc.), mostly from home.
verb:  (transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
verb:  (transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To imprison.
verb:  (transitive, Internet slang) To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
verb:  (transitive, slang, archaic) To dismiss from employment.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To investigate or evaluate as a mystery shopper.
noun:  A small village in Morwenstow parish, north Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SS2214).
noun:  A neighbourhood of St Merryn, St Merryn parish, north Cornwall (OS grid ref SW8773).
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