noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a shopping bag
▪ She loaded her shopping bags into the back of the car.
a shopping basket
▪ She paid for the apples and put them in her shopping basket.
a shopping centre
▪ They are building a huge new shopping centre just outside the town.
a shopping complex
▪ Some old buildings were pulled down to make space for a new shopping complex.
a shopping district
▪ The bomb exploded in a crowded shopping district.
a shopping expedition (=when you go shopping)
▪ I took Mary and the kids on a shopping expedition into Manchester.
a shopping list (=a list of things you want to buy)
▪ a Christmas shopping list
a shopping streetBritish English (= with a lot of shops)
▪ This is one of Europe’s most elegant shopping streets.
a shopping/fishing/skiing etc trip
▪ He was knocked off his bicycle on his way home from a shopping trip.
Christmas shopping (=for presents for people)
▪ Have you done your Christmas shopping yet?
do the shopping/cleaning/ironing/cooking etc
▪ Who does the cooking in your family?
go shopping/swimming/skiing etc
▪ I need to go shopping this afternoon.
Internet shopping/banking
▪ The new regulations will increase customer confidence in Internet shopping.
▪ Internet banking saves customers a lot of time.
shopping bag
shopping basket
shopping cart
shopping centre
shopping list
shopping mall
▪ a huge new shopping mall
shopping mall
shopping precinct
shopping spree
▪ a shopping spree
shopping trolley
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
busy
▪ The hotel is situated in a busy shopping street close to many attractions including the Leidseplein, Vondelpark, and Rijksmuseum.
▪ Swivel/lockable Wheels are easier to manoeuvre in a busy shopping area while fixed wheels are probably more comfortable over bumpy ground.
▪ Funding delays are the latest controversy to surround the building, which used to be a busy shopping centre off Skinnergate.
excellent
▪ Glasgow is an excellent town for shopping, or perhaps you would care to visit the museums, including the Burrell Collection.
▪ Hotel Anatol Close to one of the excellent shopping areas is this comfortable modern hotel.
▪ We would have about three and a half hours in Swansea, an excellent shopping centre.
▪ Apart from this, the area would seem to be an excellent site for shopping, leisure and community facilities.
large
▪ There's a range of fabulous large shopping malls, and don't miss Lake Cecil which offers excellent watersports.
local
▪ Which are the market towns, for farm products and local shopping?
▪ While hard-pressed police were occupied in rescue work, the heartless thieves descended on local shopping centres.
▪ Assignments 1 Walk around your local shopping area and choose six shops.
▪ More than 400 people in New Marske petitioned Langbaurgh Council over the application for the takeaway in the local shopping parade.
▪ At least it may allow the client to do some local shopping or allow a child more space outside.
main
▪ This new town became the main shopping and business office centre.
▪ Our house is just off the main shopping street of Tintagel, so there is always a lot of traffic going by.
▪ The main shopping and entertainments area is right on your doorstep.
▪ The complex features glass domes which will let in natural sunlight on the two main shopping areas.
▪ The riverside section of Pest opposite Castle Hill is the city's main shopping district.
▪ The hotel is at the end of the main shopping street in a busy part of the village.
▪ They and their families are doing their main weekly shopping and meeting to gossip with their friends.
new
▪ One new shopping centre planned for Budapest would increase traffic in and out the city by an estimated 20,000 cars a day.
▪ Where new road patterns or a new shopping centre affect trade, appeal.
▪ The life of a new shopping precinct may be no more than twenty years.
▪ Major new shopping developments have given Birmingham the best facilities in the region.
▪ No more whistle-stop tours of the newest shopping centre in Nuneaton to look forward to.
▪ The old terraced houses are being demolished to make way for a new shopping centre.
▪ The first is to build the new shopping mall or supermarket immediately adjacent to the town centre.
weekly
▪ The weekly shopping for a family of 4.
▪ They and their families are doing their main weekly shopping and meeting to gossip with their friends.
▪ Your weekly shopping list will probably change; you need to think about the best ways to do this for you.
▪ Over-packaging adds about ten percent to our weekly shopping bill.
▪ Where now is the consumer's demand for weekly one-stop shopping when bread has to be bought fresh daily?
▪ With the introduction of the Barcode Battler, Christmas and weekly shopping might never be the same again.
■ NOUN
arcade
▪ Behind the glitzy shopping arcades, ethnic criminal gangs fight for territory.
▪ This must be the shopping arcade.
▪ The shopping arcade is a stroll-and-browse region and the preserve of medium tempo Lawrence Welk.
area
▪ The complex features glass domes which will let in natural sunlight on the two main shopping areas.
▪ The Ku'damm was Berlin's major shopping area on Saturday afternoon.
▪ Driving-related report, however, was highest in shopping areas, then arterial roads, and lowest in residential areas.
▪ From here she would be able to make her way to the shopping areas, which were primarily reserved for pedestrian traffic.
▪ The Milk Race ends with a two-hour circuit race in the heart of Manchester's shopping area tomorrow.
bag
▪ She only purchased unpackaged products, which she bore home in her ancient shopping bag.
▪ She clutched her shopping bag and her handbag.
▪ It already recycles plastic shrink-wrap into shopping bags, and 550 own-brands products are packed in recycled cardboard.
▪ Stash old plastic or paper shopping bags near the rubbish or garbage bin and then you can re-cycle them as bin liners.
▪ Damp women bundled shopping bags and prams up and down the pavement.
▪ Jimmy swung himself down, and lifted the shopping bag out of the cart.
▪ The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag.
▪ A woman batters her husband to death with a coffee pot which she for ever after keeps in her shopping bag.
basket
▪ Fumbling with the latch key, she rushed for the telephone, thrusting the shopping basket at Edward.
▪ The effects of inflation are not limited to the shopping basket, says Raoul Pinnell, Prudential's marketing director.
▪ We chose a shopping basket of 29 items to compare them with Tesco and Sainsbury.
▪ Their shopping basket was £2.43 cheaper than in Sainsbury's, and £2.46p cheaper than in Tesco's.
centre
▪ The four-year-old was murdered in the crowded shopping centre of Warrington in a blast that injured scores of people including other children.
▪ A tree lined avenue leads to Minehead's shopping centre and the district's main tourist information centre.
▪ Houseman's Shropshire that was once visible from Telford's shopping centre has been very carefully and skilfully gnawed away.
▪ The Tropical Plants experts as the team was to be called were all seen tending the plants throughout the shopping centre.
▪ Read in studio A man accused of two arson attacks in a city shopping centre has appeared before magistrates.
▪ His experience in retail and shopping centre management includes managing a number of shopping centres in New Zealand.
▪ Although the council provided more than 50 disabled car parking spaces in the shopping centre, the couple claimed this was not enough.
centres
▪ This and the building of shopping centres and roads for larger numbers of cars created jobs in construction and materials.
▪ Some of the disastrous shopping centres of the 1960s suffered greatly from under-use because of limited public access from the surrounding streets.
▪ These securities include more than 100 properties, such as shopping centres, in five states.
▪ Luckily, I didn't have to scour the shopping centres of the north west for her.
▪ There are extra shopping centres and the Lady Godiva statue now has a marquee-like canopy swamping it.
▪ Many shopping centres include car-parking facilities.
▪ He was also involved in the development of shopping centres, offices and other building project throughout the country.
▪ Charge more for parking in shopping centres.
cornmill
▪ Burton Property Trust is the developer behind the Cornmill shopping centre in Darlington.
development
▪ Major new shopping developments have given Birmingham the best facilities in the region.
▪ We have state-of-the-art shopping developments right on the edge of West Belfast and the promise of jobs for the long-term unemployed.
▪ Such a direction has been issued, for example, in respect of a large-scale retail shopping development.
expedition
▪ He was allegedly detained at the town's Safeway Supermarket after a Friday afternoon shopping expedition went wrong.
▪ Later in the day, after their shopping expedition, Jessica and Karen drove down to the docks.
▪ In the afternoon, I was conducted on a shopping expedition by from Alligarh, an ex-student of ours from Lancaster.
▪ Small semi-serious shopping expeditions are valued as a relief from the social isolation and the work of housework.
▪ She was concentrating on her appearance, adding the finishing touches before setting out on yet another shopping expedition.
facility
▪ But I think we should be very wary of equating the growth of shopping facilities with the reconstruction of the local economy.
▪ The apartments also have an àlacarte restaurant and 24 hour reception with money exchange and general shopping facilities.
▪ It suggests Middlesbrough needs a wider choice of entertainment, bars, restaurants and shopping facilities than it now offers.
▪ Day 2 Invaluable brief on yachts, local area, weather patterns, shopping facilities etc.
▪ Coun David Walsh is worried about the impact on existing shopping facilities and the possible huge increase in traffic.
home
▪ With home shopping out of the way, Pitcher will be able to concentrate on the football pools and high street retailing.
▪ Strategically, home shopping is the obvious part to sell.
▪ A new way of home shopping for today's mums.
▪ Curiously, explains Bill Huntley, head of home shopping, the brands are still differentiated by the users.
▪ Veiled women carrying home shopping didn't give me a second glance.
list
▪ Don't do it automatically, as though you were reciting a shopping list.
▪ Buying a house is not high on many poor blacks' shopping lists.
▪ Hard times for the hake and pilchard, next on the U.S. shopping list.
▪ Prayer is far more than a shopping list, or an incidental five minutes at the end of a busy day.
▪ Kathleen Lavender stared down once again at the shopping list in her hand.
▪ Old bus tickets, theatre-tickets, a golf score-card, a shopping list, the items almost unreadable.
▪ The backs of old envelopes may be good enough for shopping lists but scrappy notes are worse than none.
▪ Diana Adams will now be taking her business elsewhere ... with bananas firmly off the shopping list.
mall
▪ Designers have been at pains to ensure the Cornmill is not just a covered shopping mall.
▪ Or is the genuine Dublin culture to be found in the new sprawling suburbs with its run-down libraries and shopping malls?
▪ It has sprouted shopping malls, discos and nightclubs, beauty salons, gymnasia, news kiosks, coffee shops.
▪ I don't work shopping malls.
▪ Even now, he had never returned to the shopping mall.
▪ You have shopping malls in Richmond and Clapham.
▪ Step ashore to a world of pavement cafes, boutiques and the continental charm of Port Solent's fashionable shopping mall.
▪ There's a range of fabulous large shopping malls, and don't miss Lake Cecil which offers excellent watersports.
precinct
▪ The two-year-old disappeared 11 days ago from Bootle's Strand shopping precinct.
▪ The shopping precinct is full of teenagers gathered in small clusters, smoking, gossiping, laughing, scuffling.
▪ James was found dead beside a railway line in Liverpool after disappearing from a shopping precinct in Bootle last month.
▪ For a modern, purpose-built resort it is surprisingly attractive, with its wood-clad buildings and cobbled shopping precincts.
▪ They are usually found in town centres and shopping precincts.
▪ The life of a new shopping precinct may be no more than twenty years.
▪ Many shopping precincts are also pedestrianised.
▪ The security firm Chubb said yesterday that further copies of the document had been discovered in a West Country shopping precinct.
spree
▪ Vividly picture going on a wonderful shopping spree, buying everything you have ever dreamt of, with great joy and exuberance.
▪ But looking after five-month-old daughter Atlanta has put a brake on her clothes shopping sprees.
▪ She was on a shopping spree and had bumped into him outside Heal's in Tottenham Court Road.
▪ More controversial than Woody Allen on a shopping spree in children's world.
▪ We are in the midst of a decade-long shopping spree.
street
▪ Our house is just off the main shopping street of Tintagel, so there is always a lot of traffic going by.
▪ In just ten seconds a peaceful shopping street is transformed.
▪ The hotel is at the end of the main shopping street in a busy part of the village.
▪ And second, it must be conceived and laid out in such a way as to support existing shops and shopping streets.
▪ The hotel is situated in a busy shopping street close to many attractions including the Leidseplein, Vondelpark, and Rijksmuseum.
▪ Situated in a quiet location, the hotel is about an eight minute walk from the resort's main shopping street.
▪ At that time North Shields had a set of Victorian shopping streets.
▪ They met, in fact, in the main shopping street, several minutes from his office.
trip
▪ The man who'd followed us on our shopping trip.
▪ Sainsbury's encourage this by refunding 1p for each bag reused during your shopping trip.
▪ An ordinary shopping trip will leave you weary.
▪ D' you feel like a shopping trip to New York?
▪ Take kids for last shopping trip but still can not remember which essential of life we have run out of.
▪ For this shopping trip is partially inspired by a letter I received today, outlining just what an economic Titan I am.
▪ Just the usual talk about the weather and her occasional shopping trip to Fort William.
trolley
▪ Backache is a constant complaint as I stoop over low baths, sinks, baby buggies and shopping trolleys.
▪ He says, we have lifts, automatic doors, disabled fitting rooms and shopping trolleys.
▪ I shall be the only person returning to his car without a shopping trolley.
▪ He is borne away by obedient parents, like an Emperor on a shopping trolley.
▪ A young woman with a shopping trolley finds herself caught in the crossfire.
▪ Apart from answering the phone, she can dance, pray, collect the mail and the Echo and push a shopping trolley.
window
▪ Magazines and window shopping are a good source of inspiration.
■ VERB
carry
▪ Léonie chose to use the basket Madeleine carried when she went shopping in the village.
▪ He was carrying a bag of shopping.
▪ Improved bus services do not eliminate the difficulties of getting to and from bus stops and carrying shopping home.
▪ They carried their offspring and they carried shopping bags.
▪ Hope Elaine did not hear this, and carry more boxes of shopping up path.
▪ Is it difficult for you to carry two or three shopping bags?
▪ A man in a business suit and a woman carrying a Saks shopping bag got in with him.
▪ Veiled women carrying home shopping didn't give me a second glance.
go
▪ By going shopping Mr Azcárraga has followed fashion.
▪ She skipped lunch in order to go shopping, spending some of her carefully hoarded wages on a new outfit for the occasion.
▪ Later, she went out shopping, taking a taxi to Jardine's Bazaar down in Causewsay Bay.
▪ He hadn't noticed it particularly when they had gone shopping together.
▪ They practised early in the morning before the rains came and then went shopping.
▪ In the mornings, for instance, after finishing the household chores she might go shopping, and then have lunch with friends.
▪ She could have killed the child either before or after going shopping.
▪ Those children, no more than babies, and the mama had gone shopping and left on the oil-stove, no?
spend
▪ The cash, in bundles of £50, £20 and £10 notes, was stolen while they spent twenty minutes shopping.
▪ She spent her time shopping, reading women's magazines, listening to pop music and watching television.
▪ He will be abandoning happy Saturday afternoons spent watching football, and instead spend them shopping, spending money.
▪ In ordinary circumstances the family contemplating spending a considerable amount of money would probably spend some time shopping around getting quotations.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crying/shopping/talking etc jag
▪ I had an incredible crying jag.
go shopping
▪ I'm going shopping now. Do you want anything?
▪ Let's meet in town. We can have lunch and go shopping.
▪ And if she was staying she had to go shopping for groceries.
▪ Arrange to go shopping with a resident who wants to buy new clothes.
▪ By going shopping Mr Azcárraga has followed fashion.
▪ Governments measure inflation by going shopping.
▪ Richard and I go shopping on Castro Street.
▪ This was the case when Chavez decided to go shopping in Tampa.
▪ When it goes shopping for fresh solutions, the open organization ought to be looking for a good fit and durability.
▪ When she went shopping to the town she wore a long, voluminous, dark-grey cloak of which she was very proud.
shopping/pedestrian precinct
▪ Continue through Headington shopping precinct until reaching Windmill Road traffic lights, turn right and continue until the roundabout.
▪ For a modern, purpose-built resort it is surprisingly attractive, with its wood-clad buildings and cobbled shopping precincts.
▪ However, most cities now have some car-free space in the form of arcades, converted streets or purpose-built pedestrian precincts.
▪ James was found dead beside a railway line in Liverpool after disappearing from a shopping precinct in Bootle last month.
▪ The life of a new shopping precinct may be no more than twenty years.
▪ The shopping precinct is full of teenagers gathered in small clusters, smoking, gossiping, laughing, scuffling.
▪ The two-year-old disappeared 11 days ago from Bootle's Strand shopping precinct.
▪ They are usually found in town centres and shopping precincts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ben listed his hobbies as watching TV, shopping, and going to the movies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even now, he had never returned to the shopping mall.
▪ On Friday morning I take my neighbour shopping.
▪ Or is the genuine Dublin culture to be found in the new sprawling suburbs with its run-down libraries and shopping malls?
▪ She arranged with the friend beside whom he was being rehoused to do his shopping on a regular basis.
▪ There's a range of fabulous large shopping malls, and don't miss Lake Cecil which offers excellent watersports.
▪ When she went shopping to the town she wore a long, voluminous, dark-grey cloak of which she was very proud.