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say it: SHAH-ping
shopping is a noun meaning "searching for or buying goods or services". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the commodities purchased from stores
“she loaded her shopping into the car”
“women carrying home shopping didn't give me a second glance”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shopping come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.