impulse buying noun

n [U]

Definition

when you buy something that you had not planned to buy, because you suddenly want it when you see it

They display chocolates next to supermarket checkouts to encourage impulse buying.

n [C]

something that you buy suddenly and without thinking carefully

I hadn't intended to get one - it was an impulse buy.

(Definition of impulse buying noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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