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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shopper
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mystery shopper
personal shopper
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
buy
▪ This price gulf mirrors the problem with organic food: most shoppers are put off buying it because it's too expensive.
▪ Stores were jammed with shoppers buying winter clothes.
▪ But much more of it is due to consumer-goods firms having encouraged shoppers to buy on price by bombarding them with special offers.
▪ Interviews with happy shoppers who just bought new undies?
▪ Consumer affairs spokesman Mr Griffiths accused games firms of rigging the market - forcing shoppers to buy, rather than rent.
▪ The need was recognized on entering the store and the shopper bought the exact item planned.
▪ Data showing that shoppers buy these items together more often when they are displayed together will confirm that the ploy works.
▪ For example, shoppers often buy chicken when the price of beef jumps.
give
▪ Grocery and discount stores give shoppers with buyers' cards special discounts in exchange for permission to gather information on their purchases.
▪ But planning officials and Labour councillors insist the scheme will works only if it gives shoppers maximum access to the road.
▪ The scheme is designed to give shoppers better access to shops without being confined to the narrow pavements.
▪ He also gives shoppers impromptu shows in Oxford's High Street.
▪ This gives shoppers the right to purchase donated goods at very low prices.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The streets were crowded with holiday shoppers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Across the country, retailers are ringing up record amounts as Sunday shoppers pack their shops.
▪ And today a spider expert claimed the creature had to be caught for the sake of other shoppers.
▪ At Macy's Plaza, a pianist gracefully serenades shoppers and a fountain offers a soothing respite from the pounding sidewalks outside.
▪ But much more of it is due to consumer-goods firms having encouraged shoppers to buy on price by bombarding them with special offers.
▪ In fact, thrift-store regulars complain that mainstream shoppers have driven some prices up out of reach of the needy.
▪ Over the blare of a popular movie melody, a marketer invites shoppers to the vehicle.
▪ The police fired teargas in the central shopping district to disperse the rioters, creating panic among shoppers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shopper

Shopper \Shop"per\, n. One who shops.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shopper

agent noun from shop (v.).

Wiktionary
shopper

n. A person who shops.

WordNet
shopper
  1. n. someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy

  2. a commercial agent who shops at the competitor's store in order to compare their prices and merchandise with those of the store that employs her

Wikipedia
Shopper

Shopper may refer to:

  • Personal shopper
  • Computer Shopper (disambiguation)
  • Window Shopper
  • Secret shopper (disambiguation)
  • Euro Shopper
  • Happy Shopper
  • A pennysaver newspaper that contains only or mainly advertising
  • the Shopper, a named frequency of the PATrain commuter rail service

Usage examples of "shopper".

He sputtered threats and cursed steadily as Plover and I rounded up all the shoppers, ordered them to abandon their carts in mid-aisle, and sent them away bereft of bargains.

City Walk, the eerie hollow sounds of the didgeridoo drifted through the warm air and around the lunchtime shoppers.

He looked down to see the early afternoon shoppers, muggers, and druggers hurrying to get out of an increasing rain.

Calle San Miguel, teeming with its tourist shoppers, and made his way to the Espadon Hotel.

Eddie trying to tell them that some big glass boxes and a corkscrew-ramped concrete parking garage are going to bring the shoppers back in spite of all the spic kids roaming around with transistors glued to their ears and knives up their wrists.

Shoppers caught in their path threw themselves down as Tomo roared down over them.

Maldetto Vomito marble lobby atrium, containing six floors of the finest shops and boutiques, attracted thousands of shoppers.

In many malls, upscale stores are clustered together so the affluent shopper can drift from one to the other, looking not just for the good life but for the better life.

Their eyes now accustomed to the low light indoors, and with the car headlamps still providing limited illumination, they searched through the bloodied remains of the shop, picking through the wreckage as if they were high street window shoppers on a Saturday afternoon.

He did not like leaving her on the street corner with the crowds of shoppers with their busyness and smiles to hammer home her shock.

The shoppers must have been puzzled by the thoughtful-looking mongrel who paced up and down that street, peering up at passing faces, snooping into shop doorways.

She pointed out to this woman that not only did the condition of the flags make the store look scruffy but they were risking offending wealthy Zairean shoppers by the state of their flag and they also risked annoying peripatetic Ukrainians, whose beloved national standard, symbol of freedom, icon of the throwing off of a thousand years of Russian imperialism, was flying upside down.

Clodius was delighted with himself, and pranced along attracting quite a lot of attention from the well-to-do lady shoppers who frequented the area of the Porticus Margaritaria and the upper Forum.

Within two or three successive seconds, millions of people in widely separated areas-factory and office workers, farmers, housewives, shoppers, salesclerks, restaurant operators, printers, service station attendants, stock-brokers, hoteliers, hairdressers, movie projectionists and patrons, streetcar motormen, TV station staffs and viewers, bartenders, mail sorters, wine makers, doctors, dentists, veterinarians, pinball players .

The sidewalks were crowded with late-night shoppers carrying pungi, the string shopping bags.