"window-shop" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: window-shops [present, singular, third-person], window-shopping [participle, present], window-shopped [participle, past], window-shopped [past]
Etymology: Back-formation from window-shopping. Etymology templates: {{back-formation|en|window-shopping}} Back-formation from window-shopping Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} window-shop (third-person singular simple present window-shops, present participle window-shopping, simple past and past participle window-shopped)
  1. (intransitive) To engage in window-shopping; to browse the windows of shops with no intention of buying anything. Tags: intransitive Derived forms: window-shopper Related terms: window-shopping Translations (browse shops with no intention of buying): 逛商店 (guàng shāngdiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 逛街 (guàngjiē) (Chinese Mandarin), olla ikkunaostoksilla (Finnish), faire du lèche-vitrine (French), kirakatot/kirakatokat nézeget (Hungarian), gledati izloge (Serbo-Croatian)

Inflected forms

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