set up shop

English

Pronunciation

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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)

To physically arrange a shop or workplace.
He set up shop in his garage every Saturday.
(idiomatic) To establish a business.
They set up shop as venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road.
- 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)‎^[1]:
  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 Plow King.
- 2010 September, Derek Rapp, "Good Company", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 80:
  […] these companies could enjoy support required to set up shop for the long term.
Antonym: close up shop

Synonyms

hang out one's shingle

Translations

physically arrange a shop or workplace

Finnish: avata (fi), pystyttää (fi)

to establish a business

Finnish: perustaa (fi)
Spanish: establecer un negocio, fundar una empresa, abrir un establecimiento, montar un local

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