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Definition of do someone's shopping

: to visit a place or places where goods are sold in order to buy the things (such as groceries) that someone needs to buy
  • I can do your shopping for you until you get better.

Word by Word Definitions

do play

  1. : to bring to pass : carry out

  2. : put

  3. : perform, execute

  1. : fuss, ado

  2. : deed, duty

  3. : a festive get-together : affair, party

  1. : the first tone of the major scale in solfège

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someone play

  1. : some person : somebody

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shop play shopping

  1. : a handicraft establishment : atelier

  2. : a building or room stocked with merchandise for sale : store

  3. : a small retail establishment or a department in a large one offering a specified line of goods or services

  1. : to examine goods or services with intent to buy

  2. : to hunt through a market in search of the best buy

  3. : to make a search : hunt

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