shopping
The process of buying goods or services, or searching for those suitable to buy.
Example
“On Saturdays we usually do the shopping.”
Other meanings
Recently bought goods.
“I carried three heavy bags of shopping up the stairs.”
An area's combination of stores and other infrastructure and products available for people who want to shop.
“Boston has good shopping.”
Related words
- antishopping
- cybershopping
- deshopping
- nonshopping
- relationshopping
- shwopping
- teleshopping
- asylum shopping
- body shopping
- doctor shopping
- e-shopping
- forum shopping
Example sentences
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “shopping” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.