shoppingshop‧ping /ˈʃɒpɪŋ $ ʃɑː-/ ●●● S2 W3 noun [uncountable] 
Late-night shopping is becoming very popular.shopping expedition/trip She’s gone on a shopping trip to New York. I went on a shopping spree (=went shopping and bought a lot of things) at the weekend and spent far too much money. I’ve got to do some last-minute shopping. the busy Christmas shopping season → window-shopping2do the shopping to go shopping to buy food and other things you need regularly: I hate doing the shopping at weekends.3British English the things that you have just bought from a shop: Can you help me carry the shopping, please?COLLOCATIONSverbsgo shopping· She skipped lunch in order to go shopping.do some/the/your shopping· I thought you wanted to do some shopping.NOUN + shoppingChristmas shopping· So you've done all your Christmas shopping, have you?grocery shopping· She even enjoys grocery shopping.home shopping (=buying things at home, for example from a catalogue)shopping + NOUNa shopping expedition/trip· His shopping trip with Uncle Billy had been a thorough success.a shopping spree (=when you buy a lot of things)· He admits to going on a shopping spree with someone else's credit card.a shopping list (=a list of what you need to buy, especially of food)· Always take a shopping list so you are not tempted to buy things you do not need.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Ben listed his hobbies as watching TV, shopping, and going to the movies.
- Even now, he had never returned to the shopping mall.
- On Friday morning I take my neighbour shopping.
- Or is the genuine Dublin culture to be found in the new sprawling suburbs with its run-down libraries and shopping malls?
- She arranged with the friend beside whom he was being rehoused to do his shopping on a regular basis.
- There's a range of fabulous large shopping malls, and don't miss Lake Cecil which offers excellent watersports.
- When she went shopping to the town she wore a long, voluminous, dark-grey cloak of which she was very proud.
Longman Language Activatorto go to shops in order to buy things
to go to shops to look at and buy things: · Let's meet in town. We can have lunch and go shopping.· I'm going shopping now. Do you want anything?
to go to shops in order to buy the things that you need regularly such as food: · On Saturdays we usually do the shopping and clean the house.· She sent her husband out to do the week's shopping.do my/your etc shopping: · I did all my shopping yesterday.grocery shopping American (=shopping for food): · We need to go grocery shopping - do you have the check book?
British go to the store American to go out to the local shop or shops in order to buy something, especially the things that you need regularly such as food: · "Where's Julie?'' "She's gone to the shops.''· If you go to the store, could you get some milk?· Mr Parker, my next-door neighbour, is getting old and I sometimes go to the shops for him.
to regularly use a particular shop , especially to buy things that you need regularly such as food: shop at/in: · I usually shop at Safeway. It's just around the corner from my house.· When she moved here, she had never shopped in a supermarket before.
to go to several different shops comparing goods and their prices before deciding which ones to buy: · If you shop around you could probably get the camera a lot cheaper.shop around for: · I spent a couple of weeks shopping around for the lowest insurance rates.
when you look at things in shop windows without intending to buy anything: · We spent the morning window shopping at all the antique stores.
a lot of shops together in one place British /shopping center American an area in a town where there are a lot of shops that have all been built together in the same place: · The boy was found dead two days after he disappeared from a shopping centre.· They had a big Santa exhibition on at the shopping center.
especially American a very large building with lots of shops inside it, and often also cinemas, restaurants etc: · We'll probably go to the mall and check out the beds there.· It's difficult to get a parking space at Shepherd's Mall.
American a row of shops in one long building that has space to park cars around it: · Strip malls were springing up all over town, and the local residents were up in arms.
British an area of a town where there are a lot of shops, especially one where vehicles are not allowed: · They've got a lovely new Burton's open in the precinct now.shopping precinct: · They wandered around the shopping precinct for an hour while Suzie was having her hair cut.pedestrian precinct: · I think they should make the whole area a pedestrian precinct.
an area, usually outdoors, where people buy and sell many different types of things: · I bet you could have got that cheaper at the market.· You occasionally see eel in the fish market, but it's quite rare these days.farmer's market (=place where farmers can sell what they grow and other food): flea market (=place where old and used things are sold)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs I need to go shopping this afternoon. a huge new shopping mall a shopping spree
· She skipped lunch in order to go shopping.
· I thought you wanted to do some shopping.
NOUN + shopping· So you've done all your Christmas shopping, have you?
· She even enjoys grocery shopping.
(=buying things at home, for example from a catalogue)
shopping + NOUN· His shopping trip with Uncle Billy had been a thorough success.
(=when you buy a lot of things)· He admits to going on a shopping spree with someone else's credit card.
(=a list of what you need to buy, especially of food)· Always take a shopping list so you are not tempted to buy things you do not need.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· She loaded her shopping bags into the back of the car.
· She paid for the apples and put them in her shopping basket.
· They are building a huge new shopping centre just outside the town.
(=for presents for people)· Have you done your Christmas shopping yet?
· Some old buildings were pulled down to make space for a new shopping complex.
· The bomb exploded in a crowded shopping district.
· Who does the cooking in your family?
(=when you go shopping)· I took Mary and the kids on a shopping expedition into Manchester.
I need to go shopping this afternoon.· The new regulations will increase customer confidence in Internet shopping.· Internet banking saves customers a lot of time.
(=a list of things you want to buy)· a Christmas shopping list
a huge new shopping mall a shopping spree British English (=with a lot of shops)· This is one of Europe’s most elegant shopping streets.
· He was knocked off his bicycle on his way home from a shopping trip.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· The hotel is situated in a busy shopping street close to many attractions including the Leidseplein, Vondelpark, and Rijksmuseum.· Swivel/lockable Wheels are easier to manoeuvre in a busy shopping area while fixed wheels are probably more comfortable over bumpy ground.· Funding delays are the latest controversy to surround the building, which used to be a busy shopping centre off Skinnergate.
· Glasgow is an excellent town for shopping, or perhaps you would care to visit the museums, including the Burrell Collection.· Hotel Anatol Close to one of the excellent shopping areas is this comfortable modern hotel.· We would have about three and a half hours in Swansea, an excellent shopping centre.· Apart from this, the area would seem to be an excellent site for shopping, leisure and community facilities.
· There's a range of fabulous large shopping malls, and don't miss Lake Cecil which offers excellent watersports.
· Which are the market towns, for farm products and local shopping?· While hard-pressed police were occupied in rescue work, the heartless thieves descended on local shopping centres.· Assignments 1 Walk around your local shopping area and choose six shops.· More than 400 people in New Marske petitioned Langbaurgh Council over the application for the takeaway in the local shopping parade.· At least it may allow the client to do some local shopping or allow a child more space outside.
· This new town became the main shopping and business office centre.· Our house is just off the main shopping street of Tintagel, so there is always a lot of traffic going by.· The main shopping and entertainments area is right on your doorstep.· The complex features glass domes which will let in natural sunlight on the two main shopping areas.· The riverside section of Pest opposite Castle Hill is the city's main shopping district.· The hotel is at the end of the main shopping street in a busy part of the village.· They and their families are doing their main weekly shopping and meeting to gossip with their friends.
· One new shopping centre planned for Budapest would increase traffic in and out the city by an estimated 20,000 cars a day.· Where new road patterns or a new shopping centre affect trade, appeal.· The life of a new shopping precinct may be no more than twenty years.· Major new shopping developments have given Birmingham the best facilities in the region.· No more whistle-stop tours of the newest shopping centre in Nuneaton to look forward to.· The old terraced houses are being demolished to make way for a new shopping centre.· The first is to build the new shopping mall or supermarket immediately adjacent to the town centre.
· The weekly shopping for a family of 4.· They and their families are doing their main weekly shopping and meeting to gossip with their friends.· Your weekly shopping list will probably change; you need to think about the best ways to do this for you.· Over-packaging adds about ten percent to our weekly shopping bill.· Where now is the consumer's demand for weekly one-stop shopping when bread has to be bought fresh daily?· With the introduction of the Barcode Battler, Christmas and weekly shopping might never be the same again.
NOUN· Behind the glitzy shopping arcades, ethnic criminal gangs fight for territory.· This must be the shopping arcade.· The shopping arcade is a stroll-and-browse region and the preserve of medium tempo Lawrence Welk.
· The complex features glass domes which will let in natural sunlight on the two main shopping areas.· The Ku'damm was Berlin's major shopping area on Saturday afternoon.· Driving-related report, however, was highest in shopping areas, then arterial roads, and lowest in residential areas.· From here she would be able to make her way to the shopping areas, which were primarily reserved for pedestrian traffic.· The Milk Race ends with a two-hour circuit race in the heart of Manchester's shopping area tomorrow.
· She only purchased unpackaged products, which she bore home in her ancient shopping bag.· She clutched her shopping bag and her handbag.· It already recycles plastic shrink-wrap into shopping bags, and 550 own-brands products are packed in recycled cardboard.· Stash old plastic or paper shopping bags near the rubbish or garbage bin and then you can re-cycle them as bin liners.· Damp women bundled shopping bags and prams up and down the pavement.· Jimmy swung himself down, and lifted the shopping bag out of the cart.· The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag.· A woman batters her husband to death with a coffee pot which she for ever after keeps in her shopping bag.
· Fumbling with the latch key, she rushed for the telephone, thrusting the shopping basket at Edward.· The effects of inflation are not limited to the shopping basket, says Raoul Pinnell, Prudential's marketing director.· We chose a shopping basket of 29 items to compare them with Tesco and Sainsbury.· Their shopping basket was £2.43 cheaper than in Sainsbury's, and £2.46p cheaper than in Tesco's.
· The four-year-old was murdered in the crowded shopping centre of Warrington in a blast that injured scores of people including other children.· A tree lined avenue leads to Minehead's shopping centre and the district's main tourist information centre.· Houseman's Shropshire that was once visible from Telford's shopping centre has been very carefully and skilfully gnawed away.· The Tropical Plants experts as the team was to be called were all seen tending the plants throughout the shopping centre.· Read in studio A man accused of two arson attacks in a city shopping centre has appeared before magistrates.· His experience in retail and shopping centre management includes managing a number of shopping centres in New Zealand.· Although the council provided more than 50 disabled car parking spaces in the shopping centre, the couple claimed this was not enough.
· This and the building of shopping centres and roads for larger numbers of cars created jobs in construction and materials.· Some of the disastrous shopping centres of the 1960s suffered greatly from under-use because of limited public access from the surrounding streets.· These securities include more than 100 properties, such as shopping centres, in five states.· Luckily, I didn't have to scour the shopping centres of the north west for her.· There are extra shopping centres and the Lady Godiva statue now has a marquee-like canopy swamping it.· Many shopping centres include car-parking facilities.· He was also involved in the development of shopping centres, offices and other building project throughout the country.· Charge more for parking in shopping centres.
· Burton Property Trust is the developer behind the Cornmill shopping centre in Darlington.
· Major new shopping developments have given Birmingham the best facilities in the region.· We have state-of-the-art shopping developments right on the edge of West Belfast and the promise of jobs for the long-term unemployed.· Such a direction has been issued, for example, in respect of a large-scale retail shopping development.
· He was allegedly detained at the town's Safeway Supermarket after a Friday afternoon shopping expedition went wrong.· Later in the day, after their shopping expedition, Jessica and Karen drove down to the docks.· In the afternoon, I was conducted on a shopping expedition by from Alligarh, an ex-student of ours from Lancaster.· Small semi-serious shopping expeditions are valued as a relief from the social isolation and the work of housework.· She was concentrating on her appearance, adding the finishing touches before setting out on yet another shopping expedition.
· But I think we should be very wary of equating the growth of shopping facilities with the reconstruction of the local economy.· The apartments also have an àlacarte restaurant and 24 hour reception with money exchange and general shopping facilities.· It suggests Middlesbrough needs a wider choice of entertainment, bars, restaurants and shopping facilities than it now offers.· Day 2 Invaluable brief on yachts, local area, weather patterns, shopping facilities etc.· Coun David Walsh is worried about the impact on existing shopping facilities and the possible huge increase in traffic.
· With home shopping out of the way, Pitcher will be able to concentrate on the football pools and high street retailing.· Strategically, home shopping is the obvious part to sell.· A new way of home shopping for today's mums.· Curiously, explains Bill Huntley, head of home shopping, the brands are still differentiated by the users.· Veiled women carrying home shopping didn't give me a second glance.
· Don't do it automatically, as though you were reciting a shopping list.· Buying a house is not high on many poor blacks' shopping lists.· Hard times for the hake and pilchard, next on the U.S. shopping list.· Prayer is far more than a shopping list, or an incidental five minutes at the end of a busy day.· Kathleen Lavender stared down once again at the shopping list in her hand.· Old bus tickets, theatre-tickets, a golf score-card, a shopping list, the items almost unreadable.· The backs of old envelopes may be good enough for shopping lists but scrappy notes are worse than none.· Diana Adams will now be taking her business elsewhere ... with bananas firmly off the shopping list.
· Designers have been at pains to ensure the Cornmill is not just a covered shopping mall.· Or is the genuine Dublin culture to be found in the new sprawling suburbs with its run-down libraries and shopping malls?· It has sprouted shopping malls, discos and nightclubs, beauty salons, gymnasia, news kiosks, coffee shops.· I don't work shopping malls.· Even now, he had never returned to the shopping mall.· You have shopping malls in Richmond and Clapham.· Step ashore to a world of pavement cafes, boutiques and the continental charm of Port Solent's fashionable shopping mall.· There's a range of fabulous large shopping malls, and don't miss Lake Cecil which offers excellent watersports.
· The two-year-old disappeared 11 days ago from Bootle's Strand shopping precinct.· The shopping precinct is full of teenagers gathered in small clusters, smoking, gossiping, laughing, scuffling.· James was found dead beside a railway line in Liverpool after disappearing from a shopping precinct in Bootle last month.· For a modern, purpose-built resort it is surprisingly attractive, with its wood-clad buildings and cobbled shopping precincts.· They are usually found in town centres and shopping precincts.· The life of a new shopping precinct may be no more than twenty years.· Many shopping precincts are also pedestrianised.· The security firm Chubb said yesterday that further copies of the document had been discovered in a West Country shopping precinct.
· Vividly picture going on a wonderful shopping spree, buying everything you have ever dreamt of, with great joy and exuberance.· But looking after five-month-old daughter Atlanta has put a brake on her clothes shopping sprees.· She was on a shopping spree and had bumped into him outside Heal's in Tottenham Court Road.· More controversial than Woody Allen on a shopping spree in children's world.· We are in the midst of a decade-long shopping spree.
· Our house is just off the main shopping street of Tintagel, so there is always a lot of traffic going by.· In just ten seconds a peaceful shopping street is transformed.· The hotel is at the end of the main shopping street in a busy part of the village.· And second, it must be conceived and laid out in such a way as to support existing shops and shopping streets.· The hotel is situated in a busy shopping street close to many attractions including the Leidseplein, Vondelpark, and Rijksmuseum.· Situated in a quiet location, the hotel is about an eight minute walk from the resort's main shopping street.· At that time North Shields had a set of Victorian shopping streets.· They met, in fact, in the main shopping street, several minutes from his office.
· The man who'd followed us on our shopping trip.· Sainsbury's encourage this by refunding 1p for each bag reused during your shopping trip.· An ordinary shopping trip will leave you weary.· D' you feel like a shopping trip to New York?· Take kids for last shopping trip but still can not remember which essential of life we have run out of.· For this shopping trip is partially inspired by a letter I received today, outlining just what an economic Titan I am.· Just the usual talk about the weather and her occasional shopping trip to Fort William.
· Backache is a constant complaint as I stoop over low baths, sinks, baby buggies and shopping trolleys.· He says, we have lifts, automatic doors, disabled fitting rooms and shopping trolleys.· I shall be the only person returning to his car without a shopping trolley.· He is borne away by obedient parents, like an Emperor on a shopping trolley.· A young woman with a shopping trolley finds herself caught in the crossfire.· Apart from answering the phone, she can dance, pray, collect the mail and the Echo and push a shopping trolley.
· Magazines and window shopping are a good source of inspiration.
VERB· Léonie chose to use the basket Madeleine carried when she went shopping in the village.· He was carrying a bag of shopping.· Improved bus services do not eliminate the difficulties of getting to and from bus stops and carrying shopping home.· They carried their offspring and they carried shopping bags.· Hope Elaine did not hear this, and carry more boxes of shopping up path.· Is it difficult for you to carry two or three shopping bags?· A man in a business suit and a woman carrying a Saks shopping bag got in with him.· Veiled women carrying home shopping didn't give me a second glance.
· By going shopping Mr Azcárraga has followed fashion.· She skipped lunch in order to go shopping, spending some of her carefully hoarded wages on a new outfit for the occasion.· Later, she went out shopping, taking a taxi to Jardine's Bazaar down in Causewsay Bay.· He hadn't noticed it particularly when they had gone shopping together.· They practised early in the morning before the rains came and then went shopping.· In the mornings, for instance, after finishing the household chores she might go shopping, and then have lunch with friends.· She could have killed the child either before or after going shopping.· Those children, no more than babies, and the mama had gone shopping and left on the oil-stove, no?
· The cash, in bundles of £50, £20 and £10 notes, was stolen while they spent twenty minutes shopping.· She spent her time shopping, reading women's magazines, listening to pop music and watching television.· He will be abandoning happy Saturday afternoons spent watching football, and instead spend them shopping, spending money.· In ordinary circumstances the family contemplating spending a considerable amount of money would probably spend some time shopping around getting quotations.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- I did all my shopping yesterday.
- On Saturdays we usually do the shopping and clean the house.
- She sent her husband out to do the week's shopping.
- We need to go grocery shopping - do you have the check book?
- But then, Harriet with her fair-haired plaits and smooth round forehead jiggling off to help Mummy do the shopping.
- Husbands can easily get out of touch with the cost of living unless they do the shopping regularly and see the bills.
- It is good for me to get out and do the shopping.
- Jane would light the fire, turn the heating on, put the horses and donkey out and do the shopping.
- Our sick ones received their injections, then off we went to do the shopping.
- While I do the shopping, Miles sits near the checkout counter reading.
- With Chancellor at the wheel, they had left enfamille to do the shopping.
- With Ivy and Ken she would take a weekly trip into Aberdeen or Banchory to do the shopping.
- I had an incredible crying jag.
- Continue through Headington shopping precinct until reaching Windmill Road traffic lights, turn right and continue until the roundabout.
- For a modern, purpose-built resort it is surprisingly attractive, with its wood-clad buildings and cobbled shopping precincts.
- However, most cities now have some car-free space in the form of arcades, converted streets or purpose-built pedestrian precincts.
- James was found dead beside a railway line in Liverpool after disappearing from a shopping precinct in Bootle last month.
- The life of a new shopping precinct may be no more than twenty years.
- The shopping precinct is full of teenagers gathered in small clusters, smoking, gossiping, laughing, scuffling.
- The two-year-old disappeared 11 days ago from Bootle's Strand shopping precinct.
- They are usually found in town centres and shopping precincts.
WORD FAMILYnounshopshoppershoppingverbshop
1the activity of going to shops and buying things: Late-night shopping is becoming very popular.shopping expedition/trip She’s gone on a shopping trip to New York. I went on a shopping spree (=went shopping and bought a lot of things) at the weekend and spent far too much money. I’ve got to do some last-minute shopping. the busy Christmas shopping season → window-shopping2do the shopping to go shopping to buy food and other things you need regularly: I hate doing the shopping at weekends.3British English the things that you have just bought from a shop: Can you help me carry the shopping, please?COLLOCATIONSverbsgo shopping· She skipped lunch in order to go shopping.do some/the/your shopping· I thought you wanted to do some shopping.NOUN + shoppingChristmas shopping· So you've done all your Christmas shopping, have you?grocery shopping· She even enjoys grocery shopping.home shopping (=buying things at home, for example from a catalogue)shopping + NOUNa shopping expedition/trip· His shopping trip with Uncle Billy had been a thorough success.a shopping spree (=when you buy a lot of things)· He admits to going on a shopping spree with someone else's credit card.a shopping list (=a list of what you need to buy, especially of food)· Always take a shopping list so you are not tempted to buy things you do not need.