Shop \Shop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shopped; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Shopping.]
   To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
   [1913 Webster]

         He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go
         shopping.                                --Byron.
   [1913 Webster]

	

	shop
     n 1: a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or
          services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod" [syn: store]
     2: small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done
        [syn: workshop]
     3: a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or
        electricity); "I built a birdhouse in shop" [syn: shop
        class]
     v 1: do one's shopping; "She goes shopping every Friday"
     2: do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or
        client of [syn: patronize, patronise, shop at, buy
        at, frequent, sponsor] [ant: boycott, boycott]
     3: shop around; not necessarily buying; "I don't need help, I'm
        just browsing" [syn: browse]
     4: give away information about somebody; "He told on his
        classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce, tell
        on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, snitch,
         stag]
     [also: shopping, shopped]

	

	shopping
     n : searching for or buying goods or services; "went shopping
         for a reliable plumber"; "does her shopping at the mall
         rather than down town"

	

	shopping
     See shop

	

	24 Moby Thesaurus words for "shopping":
   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, money illusion, purchase, purchasing,
   purchasing power, rebuying, repurchase, shopping spree,
   window-shopping