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body shopping

British

noun

informal the purchasing of manpower from another country, usu. one where wages are cheap

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Still, he felt guilty body shopping with his friend that morning.

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He had a date to go body shopping with Kevin the next morning, but he wasn’t optimistic about what they’d get for it, since there was no market for watches anymore, and even shoes and coats weren’t bringing in what they used to.

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Alex met Kevin outside the building at seven in the morning, the way they always did on Mondays to go body shopping.

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Body shopping with Kevin, neither one of them doing much talking.

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“Body shopping,” he said to Kevin.

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