shop around

Definitions

1. 1

   To actively search and compare options before making a selection or choice of vendor.

   • He's gone to shop around for a new car.
2. 2

   To actively make a search for an alternative choice of something one has, owns, or wants,…

   To actively make a search for an alternative choice of something one has, owns, or wants, without it necessarily involving buying or selling anything.

   • She's shopping around for a new boyfriend.
   • Before you ask some girl for her hand now / Keep your freedom for as long as you can now / My mama told me, you better shop around.
   • Girl no longer do I / Have to shop around any more, no no no / I've found that once in a lifetime / Girl that I've been searching for
3. 3

   To put something out on offer to multiple parties in the hope one will choose it.

   • He's shopping around his book to several studios. He hopes to get a movie deal.
   • A demo of the Cascades doing "I Wish That We Were Married" was taped and shopped around to various labels.

The neighborhood

• neighborcomparison shopping