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window shopping

noun [U]
 
 

Definition

the activity of spending time looking at the goods on sale in shop windows without intending to buy any of themMiscellaneous pastimes and their participants
(Definition of window shopping noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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