What is "manning shops"?
Full sentence is «That's odd, this temple used to have plenty of humans manning shops and tending gardens, but now it's almost empty.».
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...and a little tip. If you see a sentence with a word that you don't know but there is an "and" in this sentence, then the words before and after "and" are likely to be synonyms. In this case, 'tending' and 'manning' are very close in meaning.
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In this case, manning is a verb that means to run, or to station. The sentence is saying that there used to be lots of humans running shops around the temple. Another example is "We had our soldiers man the ships", which means we stationed our soldiers on ships.
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being present in /working in
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