Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
searching for or buying goods or services;
- Example: "went shopping for a reliable plumber"- Example: "does her shopping at the mall rather than down town"2.
the commodities purchased from stores;
- Example: "she loaded her shopping into the car"women carrying home shopping didn't give me a second glance"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
shopping
n 1: searching for or buying goods or services; "went shopping
for a reliable plumber"; "does her shopping at the mall
rather than down town"
2: the commodities purchased from stores; "she loaded her
shopping into the car"women carrying home shopping didn't
give me a second glance"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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