outshop

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7

Definition of outshop

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (UK)To send a railway vehicle out from a workshop or factory after construction or overhaul.
    “Just over 50 years ago, in September, 1910, Eastleigh locomotive works outshopped their first newly constructed locomotive, Class S14 0-4-0 motor tank No. 101.”
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verb

  1. (UK)To send a railway vehicle out from a workshop or factory after construction or overhaul.
    “Just over 50 years ago, in September, 1910, Eastleigh locomotive works outshopped their first newly constructed locomotive, Class S14 0-4-0 motor tank No. 101.”
  2. (intransitive)To purchase goods outside of one's local area.
    “Wayland, Simpson and Kemmerer's research (2000) suggested that a majority of students outshopped through the Internet and/or catalog while at school […]”
  3. (transitive)To surpass in shopping; to shop more or better than.
    “Speaking of the mall, I'm here to tell you that no one on the planet can outshop Mrs. Jane Presley.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From out- + shop.

Anagrams of outshop

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