shopping
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
Verb
shopping
Noun
shopping (usually uncountable, plural shoppings)
- The process of buying goods or services, or searching for those suitable to buy.
- On Saturdays we usually do the shopping.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest[1]:
- Mother […] considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
- 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.
Usage notes
In English, it is common to say do the shopping or go shopping. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
activity of buying
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things bought
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English shopping.
Pronunciation
Noun
shopping m (plural shoppings)
- shopping (act of shopping)
Further reading
- “shopping”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English shopping.
Noun
shopping m (uncountable)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English shopping.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃɔ.pĩŋ/
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Noun
shopping m (plural s)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English shopping.
Noun
shopping m (plural shoppings)
- shopping center
- shopping (the leisure activity of going shopping)
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English shopping, equivalent to shoppa + -ing.
Pronunciation
Noun
shopping c (uncountable)
- shopping (the leisure activity of going shopping)
Declension
| Declension of shopping | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | shopping | shoppingen | — | — |
| Genitive | shoppings | shoppingens | — | — |
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