dress shop

collocation in English

meaningsofdressandshop

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dress
noun
uk
/dres/us
/dres/
a piece of clothing that covers the top half of the body and hangs down over the legs, usually worn by women and ...
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shop
noun[C]
uk
/ʃɒp/us
/ʃɑːp/
UK
a place where you can buy goods ...
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(Definition ofdressandshopfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Let us take, for example, adressshoprun by an employer, with a manageress and one assistant.
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As she was under the impression that the people who were to purchase herdressshopdid not have ready cash, she reduced the price.
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Eventually, she resumed dressmaking, designing clothes for her classmates, and selling her designs through adressshopon the edge of the campus.
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An awning was put up for adressshop, later turned into a real coffee shop.
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The hotel, the restaurant, thedressshopall thrived on the extra business that came from his out-of-town patients.
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After this it was used as adressshop, and then a doctor's surgery, before being left derelict for several years in the early eighties.
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She then passes by adressshopand goes in to buy the beautiful gown and shoes that were in the window.
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Adressshopemployee falls in love with a millionaire.
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She worked as a clerk in a hoteldressshop.
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While high, they proceed to a fancydressshop.
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She sold herdressshop, and they left to see the world.
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At age 28, he jump-started his career by opening a high-enddressshop.
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She worked for a time as a sales girl in a localdressshopas part of integrating back into society.
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In order to settle her debts, the owner of adressshoptransfers control to a bookmaker.
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She operated anotherdressshopbetween 1951 and 1956.
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Irma would later recall how each week the parents would load their car with clothing from thedressshop and travel to small communities to sell their goods.
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This location housed many businesses over the last 100-150 including groceries, flower shop, furniture, bakery, woman'sdressshop, offices and apartments on the 2nd and 3rd floors.
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She owns her owndressshop.
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