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# shopper

«shopper» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who is buying things in a shop or market, or online** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a shopper, shoppers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A shopper is a person who is buying things in a shop or market, or online. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shopper/#m1)

2) A smart shopper compares prices to spend money wisely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shopper/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths problems shoppers buy items, pay, and get change; in money lessons children learn to be careful shoppers. In everyday life, shops are busy with shoppers before holidays. Phrases: «busy shoppers», «online shopper», «window shopper» (someone who looks but does not buy).

### examples

- The shop was full of shoppers before the holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shopper/#x1)
- A careful shopper checks the price on each label. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shopper/#x2)
- Each shopper may buy only two bags of flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shopper/#x3)
- A shopper dropped her purse, and I gave it back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shopper/#x4)
- Online shoppers get their things in the post. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shopper/#x5)
- The market opens early for shoppers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shopper/#x6)
- Mum is a smart shopper who looks for special offers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shopper/#x7)
- A shopper paid with a ten-dollar note and got three dollars change. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shopper/#x8)

### note

Countable noun: shop + -er with a double p («shopper»). In word problems, the shopper is usually the one who spends money, so the money they have goes down. A «window shopper» only looks. In UK English a «shopper» can also be a shopping bag.

### In the corpora

- [Just then the shopper is back, staggering under a full basket, and soon the table is covered with good things.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/44-willows-ch5-part4-the-carol-and-a-happy-homecoming/9/)
- [Some say tariffs protect home factories and bring jobs back; others say the cost is often passed on to shoppers as higher prices.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/18-prices-money-and-jobs-why-everything-costs-more/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shopper» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shopper/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.