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UK
/ʃˈɒpɐ/
]
[ US /ˈʃɑpɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈʃɑpɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a commercial agent who shops at the competitor's store in order to compare their prices and merchandise with those of the store that employs her
- someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy
How To Use shopper In A Sentence
- Attention, Kmart shoppers: privacy for sale, aisle nine.
- Workers feed them daily a mix of flakes, worms, grasshoppers and freeze-dried shrimp.
- When asked to name their favourite dish, most shoppers opted for the traditional British favourite fish and chips over pizza, paella, or frankfurters.
- Merchants could pay a steep price for stiffing shoppers.
- Best Buy is promoting its Geek Squad, promising shoppers before they buy that complicated electronic thingamajig that its employees will hold their hands through the installation process and beyond.
- It's a clever business tactic: Not only is the donation tax-deductible, but participating nonprofits bring in their lists, and shoppers are incentivized to buy, knowing the profits go to worthy causes. Artful Style on the Bowery
- The autumn birds were singing; the autumn flowers were blooming; yellow golden rod and scarlet sumach glowed in the corners of the fences; locusts chirped in treetops; grasshoppers stridulated in the meadows, one or two of them making more noise than a whole drove of cattle lying peacefully chewing their cud beneath an umbrageous elm and lifting up their great, tranquil, blinking eyes to the morning sun. The Redemption of David Corson
- Two shoppers were injured in the stampede as shop doors opened on the first day of the sale.
- Shoppers can order an unboxed pre-owned machine for £315 or £325 or a boxed option for £340.
- This second gene is only found in holometabolous insects, Drosophila, and silkworms but not in the more primitive hemimetabolous insects, like grasshoppers or springtails.