See shop around on Wiktionary
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"text": "He's gone to shop around for a new car.",
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"To actively search and compare options before making a selection or choice of vendor."
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"(intransitive) To actively search and compare options before making a selection or choice of vendor."
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"text": "She's shopping around for a new boyfriend.",
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"ref": "1960, Smokey Robinson (lyrics and music), “Shop Around”, performed by The Miracles:",
"text": "Before you ask some girl for her hand now / Keep your freedom for as long as you can now / My mama told me, you better shop around.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1973, Willie Hutch (lyrics and music), “I Choose You”:",
"text": "Girl no longer do I / Have to shop around any more, no no no / I've found that once in a lifetime / Girl that I've been searching for",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1980 August 2, Mitzel, “Kopacz Indicted On Murder One”, in Gay Community News, page 6:",
"text": "Federal courts look very disapprovingly on local D.A.s shopping around from grand jury to grand jury to et the indictments they want.",
"type": "quote"
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"To actively make a search for an alternative choice of something one has, owns, or wants, without it necessarily involving buying or selling anything."
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"(intransitive) To actively make a search for an alternative choice of something one has, owns, or wants, without it necessarily involving buying or selling anything."
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"ref": "1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 119:",
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"To put something out on offer to multiple parties in the hope one will choose it."
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"(transitive) To put something out on offer to multiple parties in the hope one will choose it."
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"ref": "1960, Smokey Robinson (lyrics and music), “Shop Around”, performed by The Miracles:",
"text": "Before you ask some girl for her hand now / Keep your freedom for as long as you can now / My mama told me, you better shop around.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1973, Willie Hutch (lyrics and music), “I Choose You”:",
"text": "Girl no longer do I / Have to shop around any more, no no no / I've found that once in a lifetime / Girl that I've been searching for",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1980 August 2, Mitzel, “Kopacz Indicted On Murder One”, in Gay Community News, page 6:",
"text": "Federal courts look very disapprovingly on local D.A.s shopping around from grand jury to grand jury to et the indictments they want.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To actively make a search for an alternative choice of something one has, owns, or wants, without it necessarily involving buying or selling anything."
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"(intransitive) To actively make a search for an alternative choice of something one has, owns, or wants, without it necessarily involving buying or selling anything."
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},
{
"ref": "1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 119:",
"text": "A demo of the Cascades doing \"I Wish That We Were Married\" was taped and shopped around to various labels.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"To put something out on offer to multiple parties in the hope one will choose it."
],
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"(transitive) To put something out on offer to multiple parties in the hope one will choose it."
],
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}
],
"word": "shop around"
}
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