window shoppingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈwɪn.dəʊ ˌʃɒp.ɪŋ/us/ˈwɪn.doʊ ˌʃɑː.pɪŋ/the activity of spending time looking at the goods on sale in shop windows without intending to buy any of them
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window-shop
verb [ I ] -pp-
They go to the shopping centre just to window-shop.