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window-shop

[ win-doh-shop ]

verb (used without object)

, win·dow-shopped, win·dow-shop·ping.
  1. to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
  2. to examine or evaluate merchandise for possible purchase, use, etc.:

    Russian delegations are window-shopping in European factories.



verb (used with object)

, win·dow-shopped, win·dow-shop·ping.
  1. to look at (merchandise) in the windows of stores without making any purchases:

    to window-shop shoes.

window-shop

verb

  1. intr to look at goods in shop windows without buying them
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈwindow-ˌshopping, noun
  • ˈwindow-ˌshopper, noun
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Other Words From

  • window-shopper noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of window-shop1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences

“Everybody is kind of in window-shopping behavior right now,” says Bre Clinton, an assistant manager for the Body Shop at Baybrook Mall.

Most of my window-shopping nowadays is conducted online, where book covers are reduced to flat, rectangular images that are merely elements on a page.

One of New York’s best window-shopping weekends is back, as the four-day New York International Antiquarian Book Fair returns on Thursday to the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan.

The most difficult reservation on Worth Avenue, the town’s luxe window-shopping strip, is Le Bilboquet, an outpost of the Upper East Side French-inspired bistro, which opened in Palm Beach in 2021.

Year-round and especially on weekends, visitors clog the narrow sidewalks on Main Street, window-shopping or queuing up for ice cream cones.

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