window-shop
11window-shop — verb to engage in window shopping; to browse the windows of shops with no intention of buying anything See Also: window shopping …
12window-shop — intransitive verb Date: 1922 to look at the displays in retail store windows without going inside the stores to make purchases • window shopper noun …
13window-shop — decide on things to buy while looking at different displays in store windows …
14window-shopper — window shop ► VERB ▪ look at the goods displayed in shop windows, especially without intending to buy. DERIVATIVES window shopper noun …
15window 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… …
16window-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 …
17shop — n. & v. n. 1 a building, room, etc., for the retail sale of goods or services (chemist s shop; betting shop). 2 a place in which manufacture or repairing is done; a workshop (engineering shop). 3 a profession, trade, business, etc., esp. as a… …
18shop window — noun a window of a store facing onto the street; used to display merchandise for sale in the store • Syn: ↑display window, ↑shopwindow, ↑show window • Hypernyms: ↑window • Part Holonyms: ↑shopfront, ↑ …
19window — n. 1 a an opening in a wall, roof, or vehicle etc., usu. with glass in fixed, sliding, or hinged frames, to admit light or air etc. and allow the occupants to see out. b the glass filling this opening (have broken the window). 2 a space for… …
20window shopper — win|dow shop «WIHN doh SHOP», intransitive verb, shopped, shop|ping. to look at articles in store windows without going in to buy anything. –window shopper, or –win´dow shop´per, noun. * * * window shopper noun, pl ⋯ pers [count] • • • Main Entry …
