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The browsing of shop windows without any intention of buying.
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window 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… … Financial and business terms
window-shopping — window .shopping n [U] the activity of looking at goods in shop windows without intending to buy them >window shopper n … Dictionary of contemporary English
window-shopping — window ,shopping noun uncount the activity of looking at things in store windows but not buying anything ╾ window ,shopper noun count … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
window-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 … Useful english dictionary
window 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 … English dictionary
window 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 … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
window-shopping — see window shopping … English dictionary
window 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,… … Moby Thesaurus
window-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 … English dictionary
window-shopping — noun (U) the activity of looking at goods in shop windows without intending to buy them window shopper noun (C) … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
