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

Word History and Origins

Origin of shopping¹

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

Example Sentences

Today, Ober owns several stores in a South Coast Plaza that is the vastest and most prosperous of all of Orange County’s many temples of shopping.

From Los Angeles Times

San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies arrested 29-year-old Mississippi native Rashawn Lee less than half an hour later at the shopping center.

From Los Angeles Times

She named it after her grandfather, Frank Winfield Woolworth, the founder of the Woolworth shopping chain.

From BBC

Yanique, a nursing student in Manhattan who identifies as lower-income, said while shopping for groceries at a Target store this week that "prices are really drastically high" for meat, vegetables and fruit.

From BBC

He conjured up a world where every family has an Optimus robot capable of grocery shopping, babysitting and watering the plants.

From Los Angeles Times

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