shopping

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Variant of shop

shop definition

shop (s̸häp)

noun

    1. a place where certain goods or services are offered for sale; esp., a small store
    2. a specialized department in a large store the gourmet shop
  2. a place where a particular kind of work is done a printing shop
  3. ☆ in some schools, an industrial arts course, class, or department

Etymology: ME schoppe < OE sceoppa, booth, stall, akin to Ger schopf, porch < IE base *(s)keup-, a bundle, sheaf of straw: prob. basic meaning “roof made of straw thatch”

intransitive verb shopped, shopping shop′·ping

to visit a shop or shops so as to look at and buy or price things for sale

transitive verb

  1. ☆ Informal to shop at (a specified store)
  2. Brit., Slang
    1. to inform on, esp. to the police
    2. to arrest or imprison
  3. Informal to offer for sale: often with around
shop Idioms

set up shop

to open or start a business

shop around

☆
  1. to go from shop to shop, looking for bargains or special items
  2. to search about for a good or better job, idea, etc.

shut up shop

  1. to close a place of business, as for the night
  2. to go out of business

talk shop

to discuss one's work

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

shopping Synonyms

shopping

n.

looking for bargains, inspecting goods, purchasing, comparing, looking, hunting for, matching, window-shopping; see also buying.


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shopping quotes

Shopping is Not Creating.

-Coupland, Douglas

   PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple; previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going to watch the shopping channel.'

-Coupland, Douglas

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