shopping

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The activity of buying things from shops.

   On Saturdays we usually do the shopping.

2. 2
   noun

   The things that you have just bought from a shop.

   I carried three heavy bags of shopping up the stairs.

3. 3
   verb

   Present participle of shop: buying things from shops.

   She spent the whole afternoon shopping for a new dress.

By surface analysis, shop + -ing.

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