Meaning

8 senses
  1. (intransitive)To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.

    Why don’t you come shopping for gifts with me, early before the Christmas rush?

    He’s (gone) shopping for clothes.

    einkaufen, shoppen

    де́лать поку́пкиdélatʹ pokúpki, покупа́тьpokupátʹ

    ходи́ти до крамни́цьxodýty do kramnýcʹ

  2. (transitive)To browse or purchase products from (a catalog, an internet website, etc.), mostly from home.

    Shop our new arrivals.

  3. (UK, slang, transitive)To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.

    He shopped his mates in to the police.

  4. (UK, slang, transitive)To imprison.

  5. (Internet, transitive)To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.

  6. (colloquial, transitive)To investigate or evaluate as a mystery shopper.

  7. (transitive)To pitch (a book, script, etc.) to a publisher or studio.

  8. (archaic, slang, transitive)To dismiss from employment.

More definitions
  • do one's shopping
  • shop around; not necessarily buying
  • do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
  • give away information about somebody

Examples

2885 sentences
  1. Do you go shopping every day?

    Ти кожного дня ходиш по магазинах? — deniko

    ruВы каждый день ходите по магазинам? — Hellerick

    deGehst du jeden Tag einkaufen? — Espi

  2. I'll do the shopping for you.

    Я зроблю покупки для тебе. — Sashka

    deIch mache den Einkauf für dich. — Tamy

  3. I have some shopping to do.

    Мені потрібно дещо купити. — Wordowl

  4. I hardly ever go shopping alone.

    Я майже ніколи не ходжу в магазин сам. — deniko

  5. Who did Tom go shopping with?

    З ким Том пішов у магазин? — deniko

    deMit wem ging Tom einkaufen? — frpzzd

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to visit shops:
Русский
By meaning 1
to visit shops:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to visit shops:

Origin

From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”),

From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with Dutch schop (“shed”), German Schuppen (“shed”), German Schober (“barn”), French échoppe (“booth, shop”) (< Germanic). The verb is denominal. The noun senses “act of shopping”, “purchased items” are backformed from the verb.

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Forms

shops, shopping, shopped, shopped
Base formshop · to shop
3rd person singularshops
Present participleshopping
Past simpleshopped
Past participleshopped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyshop
he, she, itshops

Past simpleLesson

all personsshopped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave shopped
he, she, ithas shopped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill shop

Synonyms

18 synonyms
to report a criminal to authority:grass up
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • go shopping
  • go shopping with
  • to go shopping
  • gone gone shopping
  • coffee shop
  • do some shopping
  • usually go shopping
  • the shopping center
  • a coffee shop
  • some shopping
  • christmas shopping
  • went shopping together

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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