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What (who) is window shopping - definition
window shopping
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![[[Block Arcade, Melbourne]], illustrating use of glass in shop fronts and an atrium roofline](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The Block Arcade Central atrium 201708.jpg?width=200 "[[Block Arcade, Melbourne]], illustrating use of glass in shop fronts and an atrium roofline")
ACTIVITY
Window shop; Draft:Window Shopping (Browsing); Draft:Window shopping (browsing); Window shopping (browsing); Window Shopping
<jargon> A term used among users of WIMP environments like
the X Window System or the Macintosh at the US Geological
Survey for extended experimentation with new window colours,
fonts, and icon shapes. This activity can take up hours
of what might otherwise have been productive working time. "I
spent the afternoon window shopping until I found the coolest
shade of green for my active window borders --- now they
perfectly match my medium slate blue background." Serious
window shoppers will spend their days with bitmap editors,
creating new and different icons and background patterns for
all to see. Also: "window dressing", the act of applying new
fonts, colours, etc.
See fritterware, compare macdink.
[Jargon File ]
(1996-07-08)
window shopping
ACTIVITY
Window shop; Draft:Window Shopping (Browsing); Draft:Window shopping (browsing); Window shopping (browsing); Window Shopping
also window-shopping
If you do some window shopping, you spend time looking at the goods in the windows of shops without intending to buy anything.
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Window shopping
ACTIVITY
Window shop; Draft:Window Shopping (Browsing); Draft:Window shopping (browsing); Window shopping (browsing); Window Shopping
Window shopping, sometimes called browsing, refers to an activity in which a consumer browses through or examines a store's merchandise as a form of leisure or external search behaviour without a current intent to buy. Depending on the individual, window shopping can be a pastime or be used to obtain information about a product's development, brand differences, or sale prices.
Wikipedia
Window shopping
Window shopping, sometimes called browsing, refers to an activity in which a consumer browses through or examines a store's merchandise as a form of leisure or external search behaviour without a current intent to buy. Depending on the individual, window shopping can be a pastime or be used to obtain information about a product's development, brand differences, or sale prices.
Examples of use of window shopping
1. Not for nothing do the French call window–shopping la lęche–vitrine – licking shop windows.
2. We were out for window shopping and so didn't have much money,» she said.
3. AUGUSTA, Maine –– In this town, window shopping is attracting a lot more guys than usual.
4. Hate shopping, but now enjoy window shopping just to see what there is to see.
5. Back in town, Irene Barr, the day–tripper, is window–shopping on Federal Street.