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shopping, vbl. n.|ˈʃɒpɪŋ|
[f. shop v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of visiting a shop or shops for the purpose of making purchases or of examining the goods exposed for sale. Also with around. Freq. transf.
1764,1799[see shop v. 5]. 1782C. A. Burney in Mme. D'Arblay's Early Diary (1889) II. 300 They spent at one shopping {pstlg}20 in Gauzes two or three years ago! 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xii, The delightful round of visits and shopping which forms the amusement, or the profession as you may call it, of the rich London lady. 1872Howells Wedd. Journ. (1892) 311 They also had done a little shopping. 1940Sun (Baltimore) 16 Feb. 24/2 By the simple expedient of ‘shopping around’ before making a deal, Walter N. Kirkman..has succeeded in saving the State $13,300 a year in office rent here. 1971Nature 10 Dec. 368/1 An author does much better by bargaining hard and honestly with almost any single good publishing house than by ‘shopping around’.
b. transf. The goods that have been purchased (in quot. 1934, ‘something that has been purchased’).
1934Punch 2 May 489/1 Thank you so much, darling, for those marvellous Shoppings... The pyjamas are divine. 1948P. Wentworth Traveller Returns i. 6 There were three people in front of her—a very stout woman with a basket full of shopping.., and a stooping elderly man. 1975Oxford Consumer June 4 There are those, i.e. the elderly, the infirm, people with shopping,..for whom cycling is not always possible.
c. = shop n. 2 e. colloq.
1934Punch 2 May 489/1 Would you think me the most terrific pest if I asked you to do yet another shopping for me? 1980M. Forster Bride of Lowther Hall xviii. 272, I could perhaps go to Wigton and do a mammoth shopping.
2. attrib. and Comb. Simple attrib.: shopping bag, shopping basket, shopping day, shopping expedition, shopping hours, shopping spree, shopping tour, shopping trip; in the names of places where shopping is performed, as shopping arcade, shopping area, shopping centre, shopping complex, shopping mall (chiefly N. Amer.), shopping parade, shopping plaza (chiefly N. Amer.), shopping precinct, shopping street; shopping-bag lady U.S., a vagrant woman carrying her possessions in shopping bags; shopping cart orig. N. Amer., a large wire basket on wheels provided for the use of supermarket customers; shopping net, a shopping bag made of string or plastic net; shopping service, a department or organization offering advice or assistance with shopping; shopping tray, an open wire receptacle for shopping designed to fit over the chassis of a pram; shopping trolley, (a) a shopping bag set on a wheeled frame; (b) = shopping cart above. See also shopping list.
1933Radio Times 14 Apr. 72/2 Dear Covent Garden..we hear, alas, that you are soon to..make way for shopping-arcades. 1977J. Bingham Marriage Bureau Murder xvi. 184 There was a shopping arcade... He often shopped there.
1959Manch. Guardian 11 Aug. 6/5 More shopping areas for pedestrians only. 1974A. Morice Killing with Kindness ii. 18 You have to pass through the shopping area to get to the main road.
1886S. Coolidge What Katy did Next ix. 247 In her shopping-bag one or two of the Carnival bonbons still remained. 1973J. Stranger Walk Lonely Road xiii. 97 Millie came in with a brimming shopping-bag.
[1972S. R. Curtin Nobody ever died of Old Age vi. 85 Letty the Bag Lady..would pack all her valuables in two large shopping bags and carry them with her.] 1976N.Y. Times 30 Sept. 43/5 The chief thing about Sally, the former ‘shopping bag lady’, is that she has personality. 1978Harper's Mag. Mar. 104 On a nearby bench, apparently keeping an intermittent vigil on the vigil, were two shopping-bag ladies. 1979N.Y. Times 10 Jan. B 7 An elderly ‘shopping bag lady’,..one of the legion of homeless, independent, often eccentric women who live on the city's streets.
1923E. Bowen Encounters 166 She had forgotten her shopping basket and her purse. 1977Times 29 June 5/7 She arrived at the court by bus carrying a shopping basket containing her dressing gown.
1956Sun (Baltimore) (b ed.) 19 Jan. 14/1 A feature of the supermarket is the now familiar shopping cart, a contraption of recent invention. 1958M. Dickens Man Overboard v. 83 A woman with a shopping cart bumped into him. 1976G. A. Browne Slide (1977) ix. 74 The shopping cart somehow getting fuller than intended.
1898Shopping centre [see centre n. 6 a]. 1933L. E. Neal Retailing & Public v. 25 There is..great competition between multiple branch organisations..to acquire the best positions in the popular shopping centres. 1944H. G. Wells '42 to '44 136 In Welwyn Garden City to-day there is a single ‘shopping centre’ associated with one bazaar. 1971P. Gresswell Environment 183 Very few shopping centres are imaginatively designed. 1977B. Garfield Recoil v. 62 Caruso..drove him..to a shopping center in Santa Monica.
1970Times 27 Feb. 19/7 Fram Gerrard, of Manchester, has won the building contract for the {pstlg}1·5m. shopping complex in Leicester.
1861C. M. Yonge Young Step-Mother xxix. 439 This was a grand shopping day, an endless business. 1973D. Miller Chinese Jade Affair xxiii. 220 ‘Only thirty Shopping Days to Christmas!’ advised the big department stores.
1847A. Brontë Agnes Grey xxv. 358, I took a little more pains with my attire than if I had merely been going on some shopping expedition alone. 1885Ruskin Præterita I. vi. 184 He [the courier] invariably attended the ladies in their shopping expeditions. 1979L. Meynell Hooky & Villainous Chauffeur xi. 139 What with cooking..and the necessary shopping expeditions she didn't have much time over.
1964A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping i. 7 There were no stated shopping hours.
1967Canad. Ann. Rev. 1966 137 Its proposals for..restriction of billboards, abolition of overhanging signs and overhead wires, closed pedestrian shopping malls, [etc.]. 1972N.Z. News 26 Jan. 7 (caption) This scene is taken from the Cuba Street shopping mall, Wellington. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts July 505/1 Shopping malls are the nearest thing to the market place which you could find in North America.
1955T. Sterling Evil of Day i. 1 Within the cabin, women with shopping nets and men with folded newspapers awaited their turns. 1969P. Highsmith Tremor of Forgery xxi. 195 Adams had a shopping net in his hand. He was putting things away in the kitchen. 1969Morning Star 1 Dec. 4/1 There will be various amenities when Stage 1 and Stage 2 are completed, [including] a shopping parade.
1957Ottawa Jrnl. 6 Aug. 1/1 The break-ins were compared with the noisy June 3 ‘tow-truck’ robbery at another grocery store in the shopping plaza. 1981P. Theroux Mosquito Coast vi. 44 We came to a shopping plaza, where we parked.
1958Shopping precinct [see precinct n. 4]. 1980A. Auswaks Trick of Diamonds iii. 75 At the end of the High Street stood a new shipping precinct.
1925Eaton's News Weekly 26 Sept. 18 When Ordering by Mail..Address Letter to Shopping Service. 1972S. Ellin Mirror, Mirror on Wall 79 The lady happens to work for a shopping service... If you want to do some shopping for your wife..these people take you to the right places and pick the right stuff.
1962M. Summerton Nightingale at Noon (1963) iv. 55 A shopping spree to purge a memory. 1976‘S. Woods’ My Life is Done 69 Ana had been on a shopping spree.
1914A. Bennett Price of Love xiv. 283 Her first apparition in the shopping streets of the town..as Mrs. Louis Fores, married woman. 1975P. Moyes Black Widower ii. 19 The great shopping street that bisects the area.
1878Masque of Poets 249 She dressed herself to start upon a fashionable shopping-tour. 1970Kay & Co. (Worcester) Catal. 1970–71 Autumn/Winter 227 Leeway shopping tray provides secure storage space and is readily adaptable to most prams. 1977Cornish Times 19 Aug. 7/3 (Advt.), Silver Cross pram, detachable body..with shopping tray.
1969G. Lyall Venus with Pistol xviii. 116 Henri has been killed... Doesn't that mean more than this—shopping trip?
1976Economist 17 Apr. 79/3 A motorised pram-cum-shopping-trolley would arguably be the most egalitarian form of transport. 1978Green Shield Stamp Catal. Feb. 113 Shopping trolley. Adjustable telescopic handle. Detachable shopping bag. 1979Criminal Appeal Reports (Sentencing) (1980) I. 255 On the morning of January 25, 1979 at Brent Cross Shopping Centre she went into a Waitrose Supermarket and loaded up a shopping trolley with groceries. |