n. The act or practice of visiting shops for the purchase or examination of goods: as, she is very fond of shopping.
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n. searching for or buying goods or services
n. the commodities purchased from stores
Word Usage
"After Sun Microsystems patented the Internet ‘’shopping cart in 1998, and Amazon.com won a patent on one-click online shopping a year later, Internet entrepreneurs howled."