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Shopper

Definition: Shopper

Shopper

Noun

1. 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)

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Modern Usage: Shopper

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: Shopper

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Supplement Shopper (reference)

  • The Frugal Shopper Checklist Book: What You Need to Know to Win in the Marketplace. (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Shopper

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Photo Album: Shopper

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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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Digital Photo Gallery: Shopper
 

"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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Shopper

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Shopper

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)93.75%9034,744
Noun (proper)6.25%6143,867
                    Total100.00%96N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Shopper

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "shopper": shopper-numbers.

Ending with "shopper": window-shopper.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Shopper

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Shopper

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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Shopper

Derivations

Words beginning with "shopper": shoppers. (additional references)

Words ending with "shopper": grasshopper. (additional references)

Words containing "shopper": grasshoppers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Shopper"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "shopper" (pronounced shÄ"per)
3-Ä" p erdropper, bopper, chopper, copper, cropper, Hopper, improper, Popper, proper, stopper, Topper, whopper.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Shopper

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.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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