"shop around" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shops around",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shopping around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shopped around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shopped around",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "shop around (third-person singular simple present shops around, present participle shopping around, simple past and past participle shopped around)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "comparison shopping"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He's gone to shop around for a new car.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To actively search and compare options before making a selection or choice of vendor."
      ],
      "id": "en-shop_around-en-verb-b1hlOucB",
      "links": [
        [
          "search",
          "search"
        ],
        [
          "vendor",
          "vendor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To actively search and compare options before making a selection or choice of vendor."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She's shopping around for a new boyfriend.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To actively make a search for an alternative choice of something one has, owns, or wants, without it necessarily involving buying or selling anything."
      ],
      "id": "en-shop_around-en-verb-7HOLhGrF",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (around)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He's shopping around his book to several studios. He hopes to get a movie deal.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 119",
          "text": "A demo of the Cascades doing \"I Wish That We Were Married\" was taped and shopped around to various labels.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put something out on offer to multiple parties in the hope one will choose it."
      ],
      "id": "en-shop_around-en-verb-pASTew8m",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To put something out on offer to multiple parties in the hope one will choose it."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shop around"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (around)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shops around",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shopping around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shopped around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shopped around",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "shop around (third-person singular simple present shops around, present participle shopping around, simple past and past participle shopped around)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "comparison shopping"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He's gone to shop around for a new car.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To actively search and compare options before making a selection or choice of vendor."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "search",
          "search"
        ],
        [
          "vendor",
          "vendor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To actively search and compare options before making a selection or choice of vendor."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She's shopping around for a new boyfriend.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To actively make a search for an alternative choice of something one has, owns, or wants, without it necessarily involving buying or selling anything."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He's shopping around his book to several studios. He hopes to get a movie deal.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 119",
          "text": "A demo of the Cascades doing \"I Wish That We Were Married\" was taped and shopped around to various labels.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put something out on offer to multiple parties in the hope one will choose it."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To put something out on offer to multiple parties in the hope one will choose it."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shop around"
}