{
  "id": "shop.commercial",
  "term": "shop",
  "sense": "commercial",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "shop",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a place where people get products",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "people.social",
      "products.goods",
      "get.acquisition"
    ],
    "interaction": "people get products in a place",
    "novel_properties": [
      "exchange venue",
      "price display",
      "service point"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, the Kwik-E-Mart in Springfield, Oregon, sold 12,700 convenience goods to regular customers.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Silk Road marketplace on the Tor network enabled 1.2 million drug transactions before its 2013 takedown.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "In medieval Timbuktu, the Sankoré Market traded salt, gold, and manuscripts among North and West African caravans.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "store.place",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "shop",
    "shopped",
    "shopping",
    "shops"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-shop.commercial"
}