shopping

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♦ shop|ping /ʃ'ɒpɪŋ/
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When you do the shopping, you go to shops and buy things.
I'll do the shopping this afternoon.
see also window shopping
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Your shopping is the things that you have bought from shops, especially food.
We put the shopping away.home shop|ping
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Home shopping is shopping that people do by ordering goods from their homes, using catalogues, television channels, or computers.
...America's most successful home-shopping channel.shop|ping cart (shopping carts)
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A shopping cart is the same as a shopping trolley. (AM)shop|ping cen|tre (shopping centres)
in AM, use shopping center
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A shopping centre is a specially built area containing a lot of different shops.
The new shopping centre was constructed at a cost of 1.1 million.shop|ping chan|nel (shopping channels)
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A shopping channel is a television channel that broadcasts programmes showing products that you can phone the channel and buy.shop|ping list (shopping lists)
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A shopping list is a list of the things that you want to buy when you go shopping, which you write on a piece of paper.shop|ping mall (shopping malls)
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A shopping mall is a specially built covered area containing shops and restaurants which people can walk between, and where cars are not allowed.shop|ping trol|ley (shopping trolleys)
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A shopping trolley is a large metal basket on wheels which is provided by shops such as supermarkets for customers to use while they are in the shop. (BRIT; in AM, use shopping cart)win|dow shop|ping
also window-shopping
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If you do some window shopping, you spend time looking at the goods in the windows of shops without intending to buy anything.

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