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set up shop

set up shop verb: to physically arrange a shop or workplace.

Verb

set up shop (third-person singular simple present sets up shop, present participle setting up shop, simple past and past participle set up shop)

  1. To physically arrange a shop or workplace.
    • He set up shop in his garage every Saturday.
  2. (idiomatic) To establish a business.
    • They set up shop as venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road.
    • Homer’s entrepreneurial spirit proves altogether overly infectious. Homer gives Barney a pep talk when he encounters him dressed up like a baby handing out fliers (Barney in humiliating costumes=always funny) and it isn’t long until Barney has purchased a truck of his own and set up shop as the...2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
    Antonyms:
    close up shop

set up shop meaning in Bengali and Kannada

set up shop in Bengali

শারীরিকভাবে একটি দোকান, কর্মক্ষেত্র সাজানো, একটি ব্যবসা প্রতিষ্ঠা করা

set up shop in Kannada

set up shop
ಅಂಗಡಿಯಿಡು aṅgaḍiyiḍu

Synonyms of set up shop

Antonyms

Forms of set up shop

third-person singular presentsets up shop
present participlesetting up shop
past participleset up shop
pastset up shop

Questions about set up shop

What does set up shop mean?
Set up shop means to physically arrange a shop or workplace.
What is set up shop in Bengali?
Set up shop in Bengali is শারীরিকভাবে একটি দোকান, কর্মক্ষেত্র সাজানো, একটি ব্যবসা প্রতিষ্ঠা করা. See Set up shop meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is set up shop?
Set up shop is a verb.
What is the past tense of set up shop?
The past tense of set up shop is set up shop.

Words near set up shop in the dictionary

  1. set up
  2. set up camp
  3. set up one's bristles
  4. set up one's rest
  5. set up one's staff
  6. set up shop
  7. set up someone's birse
  8. set up to oneself
  9. set upon
  10. set with
  11. set-and-forget

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Adapted from Wiktionary: set up shop (page history and authors); set up shop (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಅಂಗಡಿಯಿಡು (Kannada) (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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