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COMPARISON-SHOP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does comparison-shop mean?
• COMPARISON-SHOP (verb)
The verb COMPARISON-SHOP has 1 sense:
1. compare prices for a given item
Familiarity information: COMPARISON-SHOP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Compare prices for a given item
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "comparison-shop" is one way to...):
browse; shop (shop around; not necessarily buying)
Domain category:
commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
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