Shop around meaning
Shop around is a phrasal verb that means to examine prices and quality offered by different sellers before choosing what to buy.
- Past simple
- shopped around
- Past participle
- shopped around
- -ing form
- shopping around
What shop around means
compare before buyingB1
To examine prices and quality offered by different sellers before choosing what to buy
We shopped around for the best mortgage rate.
Similar phrasal verbs
With around: get around, play around, change around, come around, get around to, go around, jerk around, pass around, play around with.
Common questions
What does shop around mean?
To examine prices and quality offered by different sellers before choosing what to buy.
What is the past tense of shop around?
Shopped around, which is also its past participle.
Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.
