window-shopping

  • 1window shopping — ➔ shopping * * * window shopping UK US noun [U] COMMERCE, E COMMERCE ► the activity of going to a store or website to look at goods rather than to buy anything: »98% of the site s traffic is window shopping rather than spending. window shop verb… …

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  • 2window-shopping — window .shopping n [U] the activity of looking at goods in shop windows without intending to buy them >window shopper n …

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  • 3window-shopping — window ,shopping noun uncount the activity of looking at things in store windows but not buying anything ╾ window ,shopper noun count …

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  • 4window-shopping — winˈdow shopping noun The activity of looking at goods in shop windows as the next best thing to buying them • • • Main Entry: ↑window * * * window shopping UK US noun [uncountable] the activity of looking at things in shop windows but not buying …

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  • 5window shopping — also window shopping N UNCOUNT If you do some window shopping, you spend time looking at the goods in the windows of shops without intending to buy anything …

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  • 6window shopping —    When people go window shopping, they look at things in shop windows, without actually purchasing anything.     I haven t been paid yet, so I can only go window shopping …

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  • 7window-shopping — see window shopping …

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  • 8window shopping — Synonyms and related words: buy, buying, buying power, buying up, catalog buying, coemption, consumer power, consumer sovereignty, consumerism, cornering, emption, hire purchase, impulse buying, installment buying, mail order buying, marketing,… …

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  • 9window-shopping — UK / US noun [uncountable] the activity of looking at things in shop windows but not buying anything Derived word: window shopper noun countable Word forms window shopper : singular window shopper plural window shoppers …

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  • 10window-shopping — noun (U) the activity of looking at goods in shop windows without intending to buy them window shopper noun (C) …

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