Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or practice of visiting shops for the purchase or examination of goods: as, she is very fond of shopping.
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- verb Present participle of
shop . - noun Searching for or buying
goods orservices . - noun Recently bought goods.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun searching for or buying goods or services
- noun the commodities purchased from stores
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Examples
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After Sun Microsystems patented the Internet ‘’shopping cart in 1998, and Amazon.com won a patent on one-click online shopping a year later, Internet entrepreneurs howled.
‘Business Methods’ Patents Raise the Stakes | Impact Lab 2005
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Dec. 18 / PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE / -- With only seven shopping days left until Christmas, and only eight percent of shoppers finished with their holiday shopping*, plenty of consumers will still be busy filling their holiday shopping baskets this year.
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*starts shopping list for weekweekweekend shopping*
Video: Kitteh Noms Apple - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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While claims that bargain shopping is as good as sex are certainly debatable, these findings help to explain why people are prone to shopping sprees when down in the dumps.
Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright: Shopping For Sexual Arousal Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright 2010
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Whenever a producer and I travel out of Washington, D.C., to report a story for the show, we try to arrange what we call shopping opportunities.
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The first payment you give will be substantial, because they'll be what we call shopping the job, bringing in all the materials.
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She always -- her and I had what we called our shopping sprees, when we didn't know what else to do.
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"Should we no do a little what you call shopping for the babies, and haf a farewell feast tonight if I go for my last call at your so pleasant home?" he asked, stopping before a window full of fruit and flowers.
Little Women 1921
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"Should we no do a little what you call shopping for the babies, and haf a farewell feast tonight if I go for my last call at your so pleasant home?" he asked, stopping before a window full of fruit and flowers.
Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1860
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Now that's what we call a shopping win-win: stay in your slippers and earn points toward your next vacation.airmiles. ca.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Angela Self 2009
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I confess I did a bit of pain shopping myself in the weeks following D-Day. My husband would no sooner be out the door than I'd be rooting through his drawers, his suit pockets, his files -- looking for something, anything, to confirm what I already knew.
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It is absolutely necessary to gather information, but there comes a point where a person can become hyper-fixated/dwell; to me, that is where the pain shopping starts.
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In short Pain Shopping is literally shopping for reasons to be upset, and is one of the worst self-flagellating, mentally harming things you can do to stall your recovery. Most of us get our pain for free without looking for it so why make it extra worse?
Pain Shopping Sarah Grace 2021
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