Meaning of shop around | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To actively search and compare options before making a selection or choice of vendor.
   intransitive
2. To actively make a search for an alternative choice of something one has, owns, or wants, without it necessarily involving buying or selling anything.
   intransitive
3. To put something out on offer to multiple parties in the hope one will choose it.
   transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“He's gone to shop⟳ around for a new car.”

“She's shopping around for a new boyfriend.”

“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.”

“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”

“Federal courts look⟳ very disapprovingly on local D.A.s shopping around from grand jury to grand jury to et the indictments they want⟳.”

“He's shopping around his book to several studios. He hopes to get⟳ a movie deal⟳.”

“A demo of the Cascades doing "I Wish⟳ That We Were Married" was taped and shopped around to various labels.”

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