Etymology

deshopping

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Today it means: The practice of buying an item, using it once and then returning it to the place it was bought for a refund, having had the intention of doing so when buying the item. Full definition →

English shopping ← Latin dē- ← Proto-Italic *dē
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*de
  2. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  3. Proto-Italic*dē
  4. Latindē
  5. Latindē-
  6. Englishde-
  7. Englishshopping
  8. English todaydeshopping

From de- + shopping.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.