If you shop around, you go to different shops or companies in order to compare the prices and quality of goods or services before you decide to buy them.
Prices may vary so it's well worth shopping around before you buy. [VERBPARTICLE]
He shopped around for a firm that would be flexible. [VERBPARTICLE + for]
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shop around in British English
verb(intr, adverb) informal
1.
to visit a number of shops or stores to compare goods and prices
2.
to consider a number of possibilities before making a choice
shop around in American English
US
1.
to go from shop to shop, looking for bargains or special items
2.
to search about for a good or better job, idea, etc.
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shop around in Insurance
(ʃɒp əraʊnd)
Word forms: (present) shops around, (past) shopped around, (perfect) shopped around, (progressive) shopping around
verb
(Insurance: Sales and distribution)
If you shop around, you compare the price and quality of different items or services before you decidewhich to buy.
Once you know what your personal needs are, shop around for the best possible term life insurance quotes.
Premiums and account fees can vary, so be sure to shop around.
If you shop around, you compare the price and quality of different items or services before you decidewhich to buy.
Examples of 'shop around' in a sentence
shop around
He allowed me to steer him to a little coffee shop around the corner from the police station.
Tapply, William G THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
She was carrying a cup of coffee from the shop around the corner, and she was wearing sunglasses.
Isobel Bird CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 13: AND IT HARM NONE (2001)
Chinese translation of 'shop around'
shop around
vi
仔细(細)选(選)购(購) (zǐxì xuǎngòu)
to shop around for sth到处(處)物色某物 (dàochù wùsè mǒuwù)
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Nearby words of
shop around
shoot up
shooting
shop
shop around
shop assistant
shop window
shopkeeper
Related terms of
shop around
to shop around for sth
(phrasal verb)
Definition
to consider a number of possibilities before making a choice
He shopped around for a firm that would be flexible.
Synonyms
search
There was no chance of him being found alive and the search was abandoned.
look
Have you looked on the piano?
hunt
The couple had helped in the hunt for the lost hiker.
cast around
leave no stone unturned
scout about
look high and low
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Additional synonyms
in the sense of hunt
Definition
the act or an instance of hunting
The couple had helped in the hunt for the lost hiker.