Definitions
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- v. Present participle of shop.
- n. Searching for or buying goods or services.
- n. Recently bought goods.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or practice of visiting shops for the purchase or examination of goods: as, she is very fond of shopping.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. searching for or buying goods or services
- n. the commodities purchased from stores
Etymologies
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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.
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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*
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As far as shopping is concerned, I suspect you would need a car or a taxi to go shopping since the city is pretty spread out.
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