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bodyshop

bodyshop is the alternative spelling of body shop.

Meaning of body shop

Noun

body shop (plural body shops)

  1. (US) A workshop in which damage to the bodywork of cars is repaired.
    Synonyms:
    panel beaters
  2. (slang) A consultancy that recruits workers (generally in information technology) in order to contract out their services on a tactical short- to mid-term basis.
    • Flouting employment discrimination laws, unethical body shops blatantly advertise in US publications for jobs that clearly target foreign nationals.2013, Vivek Wadhwa, The Immigrant Exodus, page 53

Forms of bodyshop

pluralbodyshops

Questions about bodyshop

What is bodyshop the alternative spelling of?
Bodyshop is the alternative spelling of body shop.

Words near bodyshop in the dictionary

  1. bodyshapers
  2. bodyshapes
  3. bodyshell
  4. bodyshells
  5. bodyship
  6. bodyshop
  7. bodyshops
  8. bodyside
  9. bodysides
  10. bodyslam
  11. bodyslammed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bodyshop (page history and authors); body shop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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