shopping

UK /ˈʃɒpɪŋ/ US /ˈʃɑpɪŋ/
noun 4

Definitions

noun

1

The process of buying goods or services, or searching for those suitable to buy.

On Saturdays we usually do the shopping.

After a hard day's shopping, they had come home laden with bargains, and the dressing-room was strewed with Indian fans, ivory boxes, and lace.

2

Recently bought goods.

I carried three heavy bags of shopping up the stairs.

3

An area's combination of stores and other infrastructure and products available for people who want to shop.

Boston has good shopping.

4

Placement in a workshop for overhaul.

The five roller-bearing A1s are now averaging 120,000 miles between shopping; this figure is an improvement of about 50 per cent on the norm of other ex-L.N.E. Pacific types.

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