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▪ I. cybershop, n.
Brit. |ˈsʌɪbəʃɒp|, U.S. |ˈsaɪbərˌʃɑp|
[‹ cyber- comb. form + shop n. Compare slightly earlier cybershop v.]
A facility (esp. a web site) which allows a person to browse through or buy products over the Internet.
1994San Diego Union-Tribune 29 Mar. (Computer Link section) 7/1 You can find the locations for cyber⁓shops full of books, software, flowers, CD-ROMs, computers and other products by trying gopher peg.cwis.uci.edu. 2001H. Chan et al. E-Commerce i. 13 Even if we do not have cybershops, we can still make the purchase from physical shops. 2006Time Out N.Y. 19 Oct. 66/1 Apple's cybershop doesn't offer subscriptions for music or movies.
▪ II. cybershop, v.
Brit. |ˈsʌɪbəʃɒp|, U.S. |ˈsaɪbərˌʃɑp|
[‹ cyber- comb. form + shop v.]
intr. To browse through and buy products over the Internet; to use a cybershop.
1993Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 20 Dec. d1 You never have to leave your house. Just boot up, plug in and ‘cybershop’. 1999Newsweek 29 Nov. 63/2 More than half of American workers cybershop on company time. 2003S. Greenfield Tomorrow's People ii. 34 When you cyber-shop from your home you are able to indulge in virtual fittings, having fed in your precise body measurements. 2005Times (Nexis) 17 Dec. (Features section) 20 I've cybershopped my way out of ever having to leave the house again.
Derivatives. cybershopping n. and adj.
1994Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 23 Feb. b3 There are enough daily temptations to spend my money on without the added lure of *cybershopping. 1998New Scientist 30 May 53/2 Cybershopping has important environmental gains. 2007Kansas City (Missouri) Star (Nexis) 22 Nov. About one-fourth of the cybershopping workers said they expected to spend at least two hours shopping for gifts while at work this holiday. |