shop around

phrasal verb

shopped around; shopping around; shops around

1

: to look for the most suitable item or service for the lowest price

Shop around first before you buy a car.

She is shopping around for a bank with low fees.

2

: to try to get a company to publish or produce (something)

He shopped his manuscript around, but no publishers were interested.

Examples of shop around in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Michele Eberle, executive director of the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange, said that one of the proposals in the House bill would cut a month off the open enrollment period when people shop around for health care plans – running from Nov. 1 to Dec. 15, instead of through Jan. 15. —Danielle J. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 6 June 2025

Ghost preparers tend to set up shop around tax time, usually as a short-term rental in a busy area or a community gathering place, such as a church. —Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025

And shop around for the most advantageous mortgage. —Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 18 June 2025

The Kim Kardashian Diamond Heist, Firecracker Films’ doc for BBC Three about Kim Kardashian’s traumatic gunpoint robbery in Paris, has been shopped around the world. —Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 11 June 2025

Rhymes for shop around

• aboveground
• battleground
• belowground
• paperbound
• turnaround
• ultrasound
• underground
• wraparound
• abound
• aground
• astound
• background