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Definition: Shopper |
ShopperNoun1. Someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy. 2. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Shopper |
| English words defined with "shopper": bargain hunter. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "shopper": CUSTOMER-SERVICE CLERK, customer-service specialist, post exchange. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I mean, the moment I mentioned her name at Barney's, people just started kissing my ass. I got a glass of champagne, a personal shopper, and a Percocet (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) I guess a more experienced shopper could have gotten more for your seven cents (Stand By Me; writing credit: Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans. Based on the story 'The Body' by Stephen King.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | TV Shopper (1948) Bobby Bumps Early Shopper (1917) Late Night Shopper (2002) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
A shopper chooses between 2 packages of frozen peas. 1 box has a cream sauce. See artwork: PV-44. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). | A black female shopper examining the produce on display. (part of the Giant "Eat For Health" Campaign). Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | ||
![]() | Shopper selects potatoes in the produce section of a local supermarket. Credit: USDA. | ![]() | The early, early, early, Xmas shopper. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Woman shopper, Salem, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Salem, Illinois. Woman shopper. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Shopper coming out of grocery store, Lakeland, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Saturday night shopper. Grundy Center, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Artist and shopper" by Adam Kurzok Commentary: "Guy playing a drums to earn his life:) free to use, just click www.creactive.cz." | "Shop girl" by Obed Tewes Commentary: "Stylish shopper in Perth Market." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | According to the tax refund figures, watches and jewelry were equally popular with the Asian and Western shopper. (references) | |
Comdex Egypt, the largest IT event in North Africa, has been taking place in Cairo for the 3rd year. When last held in Cairo on May 28-31,2000, the show attracted 22,500 IT professional visitors and 40,000 visitors for the shopper part of the event. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Shopper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Shopper" is used about 96 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.75% | 90 | 34,744 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.25% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 96 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "shopper": shopper-numbers. | |
Ending with "shopper": window-shopper. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mystery shopper | 3,756 | become a secret shopper | 71 |
secret shopper | 1,564 | apartment shopper guide | 69 |
shopper drug mart | 1,021 | anoka shopper | 68 |
computer shopper | 595 | frugal shopper | 63 |
shopper | 531 | secret shopper canada | 63 |
auto shopper | 312 | secret shopper company | 57 |
shopper food warehouse | 293 | drugmart shopper | 56 |
personal shopper | 231 | mystery shopper employment | 55 |
mystery shopper job | 183 | professional shopper | 53 |
copernic shopper plus | 179 | smart shopper | 49 |
super shopper | 171 | pc shopper | 49 |
mystery network shopper | 120 | mystery shopper program | 48 |
become a mystery shopper | 104 | becoming a mystery shopper | 48 |
secret shopper job | 101 | it part shopper | 46 |
shopper simcoe | 94 | secret mystery shopper | 44 |
boat shopper | 91 | shopper optimum | 43 |
shopper advantage | 90 | shopper world | 43 |
shopper guide | 83 | mystery shopper job opportunity | 43 |
computer shopper magazine | 82 | secret shopper employment | 42 |
anoka county shopper | 73 | shopper springfield | 42 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "shopper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | blerës (buyer, client, customer, purchaser, vendee). (various references) | |
Arabic | المتسوق, المشتري (buyer, taker), الزبون (client, patient). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | купувач (buyer, customer, purchaser, user, vendee). (various references) | |
Chinese | 顾客 (Clientele, Constituencies, Constituency, Customer). (various references) | |
Czech | zákazník (client, customer, fare, purchaser, taker), kupující (buyer). (various references) | |
French | personne qui fait ses courses, client, acheteur. (various references) | |
German | käufer (buyer, customer, purchaser, purchasers, vendee, vendees). (various references) | |
Greek | χρίζων, αγοραστήσ (buyer, purchaser, vendee), αυτός που ψωνίζει, ψωνιστήσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | קונה (buyer, purchaser). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vásárló (buyer, client, customer, procurer, purchaser, vendee), bevásárló (purchaser), anyagbeszerző. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pembelanja. (various references) | |
Italian | borsa per la spesa, acquirente (accepter, acceptor, account debtor, buyer, purchaser, taker). (various references) | |
Korean | 구매자 (Buyer). (various references) | |
Manx | kionneyder (buyer, customer, purchaser). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oppershay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | freguês (buyer, charterer, client, customer, guest, purchaser), comprador (buyer, client, comprador, customer, purchaser, taker, vendee). (various references) | |
Russian | покупатель (bidder, buyer, client, customer, purchaser, vendee). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mušterija (client, customer, taker), kupac (bidder, buyer, customer, purchaser). (various references) | |
Spanish | comprador (buyer, client, comprador, customer, purchaser). (various references) | |
Swedish | shoppande människa, kund (client, customer, patron). (various references) | |
Turkish | müşteri (buyer, client, customer, patron, patronizer, purchaser, taker), alışverişçi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | закупник, покупець (bidder, buyer, customer, purchaser). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shopper": shoppers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "shopper": grasshopper. (additional references) | |
Words containing "shopper": grasshoppers. (additional references) | |
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"Shopper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schepper, schuppen, sheepper, Sheppe, shepper, shepperd, shooper, shope, shoppe, shoppie, shopwer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shopper" (pronounced shÄ"per) |
| 3 | -Ä" p er | dropper, bopper, chopper, copper, cropper, Hopper, improper, Popper, proper, stopper, Topper, whopper. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hoppers. | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-o-p-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: ephors, hopers, hopper, posher, shoppe. | |
-2 letters: ephor, heros, hoers, hoper, hopes, horse, pepos, perps, popes, pores, poser, preps, props, prose, repos, repps, ropes, shoer, shore, spore. | |
-3 letters: epos, eros, hero, hers, hoer, hoes, hope, hops, hose, opes, ores, pehs, pepo, peps, perp, peso, pope, pops, pore, pose, posh, prep, prop, pros, repo, repp. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-o-p-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: choppers, prophase, prophesy, prophets, shoppers, whoppers. | |
+2 letters: copperahs, hornpipes, hyperopes, phosphore, prophages, prophases. | |
+3 letters: apostrophe, approaches, epistrophe, hyperopias, phalaropes, phosphores, porphyries, pronephros, prophecies, prophesied, prophesier, prophesies, prophetess, saprophyte, shopkeeper, sporophore, sporophyte, worshipped, worshipper. | |
+4 letters: apostrophes, carpophores, clodhoppers, copperheads, coppersmith, emperorship, epistrophes, fleahoppers, froghoppers, grasshopper, hippocrases, hippodromes, hyperploids, leafhoppers, lophophores, periphytons, petroglyphs, philosopher, phosphorite, photophores, photosphere, praetorship, prophesiers, prophesying, prophylaxes, pseudomorph, rockhoppers, saprophytes, shopkeepers, showstopper, spermophile, spheroplast, sporophores, sporophytes, treehoppers, troposphere, worshippers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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