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View synonyms for shopping

shopping

[ shop-ing ]

noun

  1. the act of a person who shops.
  2. the facilities or merchandise available to those who shop:

    Chicago has good shopping.



adjective

  1. of, for, or pertaining to examining and buying merchandise:

    a shopping trip.

shopping

/ ˈʃɒpɪŋ /

noun

  1. a number or collection of articles purchased
  2. the act or an instance of making purchases


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Word History and Origins

Origin of shopping1

First recorded in 1755–65; shop + -ing 1, -ing 2

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Example Sentences

Today, the city is an Asian hipster outpost, with shopping malls, clothing boutiques, and mixologist-prepared cocktails.

The woman in question, meanwhile, has business of her own to take care of—she is reported to be shopping a memoir.

While grocery shopping a guy I had noticed following me earlier, walked by me really fast and said, ‘You look shorter in person.’

She appeared to be just a happy American consumer out shopping at a big-box store.

Gift cards are sold at kiosks in shopping malls or even websites that catering to this exchange market.

Do the necessary shopping for your friend, and relieve her of as much family care as you can.

Politeness is very essential to the right transaction of that great business of woman's life, shopping.

The French women now appear in simple attire and are limiting their shopping to the few things they need.

If I were a woman and wanted to win a man, I should make him take me shopping when he needed new towels!

Your average woman shopping is the epitome of irresolution, or so it seems to the man.

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