hang out one's shingle
To open an office or business, especially in a profession.
She's good enough at fixing vacuum cleaners that she should hang out her shingle and try making some money at it.
shingle
/ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/
noun 7verb 5
Collocations
3VERB + SHINGLE
hung, putting, smashed, view
SHINGLE + NOUN
barber, beach, mills, southsea
PREP.
from, on, out, upon
Definitions
noun
1
A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
I reached St. Asaph, a Bishop's See, where there is a very poor Cathedral Church, covered with Shingles or Tiles
2
A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
3
A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).
He [...] hung a shingle as a barber.
When [these attorneys] were born, in the early decades of the 19th century, being a lawyer meant putting out a shingle and representing your neighbors.
4
A word-based n-gram.
In the second phase, we produce a list of all the shingles and the documents they appear in, sorted by shingle value.
verb
1
To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
2
To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
3
To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
verb
1
To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
2
To beat with a shingle.
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Synonyms
noun — building material used as siding or roofing
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I reached St. Asaph, a Bishop's See, where there is a very poor Cathedral Church, covered with Shingles or Tiles
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He [...] hung a shingle as a barber.
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When [these attorneys] were born, in the early decades of the 19th century, being a lawyer meant putting out a shingle and representing your neighbors.
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And naked shingles of the world.
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Underneath a black cliff where the incoming tide smashed on the shingle, they stumbled upon the mail hood of Hrothgar's murdered vassal.
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You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore. Follow this with a layer of compacted "hoggin" – compacted clay, gravel and sand. This i
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