cybershopn.
/ˈsʌɪbəʃɒp/, U.S. /ˈsaɪbərˌʃɑp/ A facility (esp. a website) which allows a person to browse through or purchase goods, services, etc., over the internet.
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1994 San Diego Union-Tribune 29 Mar. (Computer Link section) 7/1 You can find the locations for cybershops full of books, software, flowers, CD-ROMs, computers and other products by trying gopher peg.cwis.uci.edu.
2001 H. Chan et al. E-Commerce i. 13 Even if we do not have cybershops, we can still make the purchase from physical shops.
2006 Time Out N.Y. 19 Oct. 66/1 Apple's cybershop doesn't offer subscriptions for music or movies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
cybershopv.
/ˈsʌɪbəʃɒp/, U.S. /ˈsaɪbərˌʃɑp/ intransitive. To browse through or purchase goods, services, etc., over the internet; to use a cybershop.
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1993 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 20 Dec. d1/4 You never have to leave your house. Just boot up, plug in and ‘cybershop’.
1999 Newsweek 29 Nov. 63/2 More than half of American workers cybershop on company time.
2003 S. 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.
Derivatives
ˈcyberˌshopping n. and adj.
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1994 Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. 23 Feb. b3/5 There are enough daily temptations to spend my money on without the added lure of cybershopping.
1998 New Scientist 30 May 53/2 Cybershopping has important environmental gains.
2007 Kansas 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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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