shoppingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈʃɒp.ɪŋ/us/ˈʃɑː.pɪŋ/A1 the activity of buying things from shops:
I'm going shopping this afternoon.
My granddaughter does my weekly shopping for me.
UK The store is open for late night shopping on Wednesdays.
Christmas shopping
A2 goods that you have bought from shops, especially food:
She had so many bags of shopping that she could hardly carry them.
I forgot my shopping list.
More examples
- She went shopping to cheer herself up.
- I dropped him at the library and went shopping.
- She's very independent and does all her own shopping and cooking.
- Will you be able to carry all the shopping back home on your bike ?
- I was loaded down with shopping.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Buying
- acquisitiveness
- approval
- bid
- bidding war
- bite
- brand loyalty
- bulk-buy
- import
- kick the tires idiom
- load up on sth
- money-off
- on the slate idiom
- order form
- order sth in
- over the counter idiom
- send out for sth
- shop around
- shopaholic
- stock up
- trade-in
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