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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHOP'PING, ppr. Visiting shops for the purchase of goods.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: searching for or buying goods or services; "went shopping for a reliable plumber"; "does her shopping at the mall rather than down town"
2: the commodities purchased from stores; "she loaded her shopping into the car"women carrying home shopping didn't give me a second glance"

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 (often attrib.) the purchase of goods etc. (shopping expedition). 2 goods purchased (put the shopping on the table). Phrases and idioms: shopping centre an area or complex of shops, with associated facilities.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shop Shop, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Shopping.] To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods. He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping. --Byron.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. When you do the shopping, you go to shops and buy things. I'll do the shopping this afternoon. see also window shopping 2. Your shopping is the things that you have bought from shops, especially food. We put the shopping away.

Moby Thesaurus

buy, buying, buying power, buying up, catalog buying, coemption, consumer power, consumer sovereignty, consumerism, cornering, emption, hire purchase, impulse buying, installment buying, mail-order buying, marketing, money illusion, purchase, purchasing, purchasing power, rebuying, repurchase, shopping spree, window-shopping