Definitions for shopping
shop·ping

Princeton's WordNet(4.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. shopping(noun)

   searching for or buying goods or services

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

2. shopping(noun)

   the commodities purchased from stores

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

Wiktionary(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. shopping(Noun)

   Searching for or buying goods or services.

   On Saturdays we usually do the shopping.

2. shopping(Noun)

   Recently bought goods.

   I carried three heavy bags of shopping up the stairs.

Webster Dictionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Shopping

   of Shop

Freebase(3.16 / 12 votes)Rate this definition:

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 Contribution(4.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

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. shopping

   Verb form of the word shop.

   The shopping was easily achieved every Saturday morning.

   Submitted by MaryC on January 3, 2020  

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

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say shopping in sign language?

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. Marcelene Cox:

   The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.

2. Tammy Faye Bakker:

   I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

3. Gaggan Anand:

   My house was one kilometer from here, my earliest memory was when I was with my dad, holding his hand, shopping. This is what has brought me to the culture of food, where I am today.

4. Mandy Klein:

   Constance lives from shopping tourism, and lives very well.

5. Tesco CEO Dave Lewis:

   All of those people that were saying the death of the hypermarket. No, it's not the case, as we've gone back to giving shoppers the full choice and increasingly better value (they've realized) that's the most convenient way to do your shopping.

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