Definitions for Shopping
shop·ping

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. shoppingnoun

   searching for or buying goods or services

   "went shopping for a reliable plumber"; "does her shopping at the mall rather than down town"

2. shoppingnoun

   the commodities purchased from stores

   "she loaded her shopping into the car"women carrying home shopping didn't give me a second glance"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. shoppingnoun

   Searching for or buying goods or services.

   On Saturdays we usually do the shopping.

2. shoppingnoun

   Recently bought goods.

   I carried three heavy bags of shopping up the stairs.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shopping

   Shopping is an activity in which a customer browses the available goods or services presented by one or more retailers with the potential intent to purchase a suitable selection of them. A typology of shopper types has been developed by scholars which identifies one group of shoppers as recreational shoppers, that is, those who enjoy shopping and view it as a leisure activity.Online shopping has become a major disruptor in the retail industry as consumers can now search for product information and place product orders across different regions. Online retailers deliver their products directly to the consumers' home, offices, or wherever they want. The B2C (business to consumer) process has made it easy for consumers to select any product online from a retailer's website and to have it delivered relatively quickly. Using online shopping methods, consumers do not need to consume energy by physically visiting physical stores. This way they save time and the cost of traveling. A retailer or a shop is a business that presents a selection of goods and offers to trade or sell them to customers for money or other goods. Shoppers' shopping experiences may vary. They are based on a variety of factors including how the customer is treated, convenience, the type of goods being purchased, and mood.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Shopping

   of Shop

FreebaseRate this definition:3.2 / 12 votes

1. Shopping

   A retailer or shop is a business that presents a selection of goods or services and offers to sell them to customers for money or other goods. Shopping is an activity in which a customer browses the available goods or services presented by one or more retailers with the intent to purchase a suitable selection of them. In some contexts it may be considered a leisure activity as well as an economic one. The shopping experience can range from delightful to terrible, based on a variety of factors including how the customer is treated, convenience, and mood. The shopping experience can also be influenced by other shoppers. For example, research from a field experiment found that male and female shoppers who were accidentally touched from behind by other shoppers left a store earlier than people who had not been touched and evaluated brands more negatively, resulting in the Accidental Interpersonal Touch effect. According to a 2000 report, in the U.S. state of New York, women purchase 80% of all consumer goods and influence 80% of health-care decisions.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. shopping

   The act and process of to shop.

   The family do their shopping only when the food they bought has all been eaten.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 9, 2020  

2. ---

   shoppingverb

   Verb form of the word shop.

   The shopping was easily achieved every Saturday morning.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 3, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Buying

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Shopping' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3725

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Shopping' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1706

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Shopping' in Nouns Frequency: #1435

Anagrams for Shopping »

1. hoppings

How to pronounce Shopping?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Shopping in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Shopping in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Shopping in a Sentence

1. Forensics Ed O'Carroll:

   That deceased woman in a shopping cart was covered only with a blanket. We believe this may be Anthony Eugene Robinson's fifth victim.

2. Apoorva Mehta:

   American households spend over a hundred hours every single year shopping for groceries, that's time they could spend with their families, with their friends, doing the things that they love.

3. Bobby Olvera Jr.:

   Those robots represent hundreds of (lost) jobs, it means hundreds of people that aren’t shopping. They aren’t paying taxes and they aren’t buying homes.

4. Steve Sadove:

   E-commerce sales hit a record high this year with more people doing their holiday shopping online.

5. Marieke Witjes:

   Going into Africa is still a little bit adventurous in a way, compared to, for example, Asia, which has mega-cities and plenty of shopping malls, that's why a lot of international players are still kind of fearful about putting their money into Africa.

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