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shopper (oh) and sitting(1) (iou)


shopper (oh)



someone who buys things in shops
::The streets were crowded with shoppers.
see usage note customer

sitting(1) (iou)



sitting noun. ME.
[from SIT verb + -ING1.]
a. The action of SIT verb; the fact of being seated; an instance of this. Also foll. by adverb. ME.
b. Position, posture. rare. E18.
a. Deliberation on judicial affairs; a meeting of a legislative body, a court session; a period during which a court sits. ME.
b. Hist. A fair for the hiring of servants, a statute. Usu. in pl. north. M17.
c. A meeting of members of the Society of Friends for family worship. M19.
a. The action of a bird sitting on and hatching eggs; incubation. LME.
b. A number of eggs on which a bird sits for the purpose of incubation; a clutch. M19.
A thing or place on or in which one sits; a seat. Later esp., a seat for one person in a church. LME.
Sydney Smith The people who had sittings in the great pew.
A period of remaining seated; spec. a period of sitting as a model for an artist or photographer. L16.
at a sitting, at one sitting in one period of continuous activity, in one go.
Artist A portrait..might take..10 or 12 sittings of a couple of hours.
b. A seance. L19.
c. Any of a series of sessions in which a meal is served in a restaurant etc. M20.
attrib.: Holiday Which? A first sitting dinner at 6.45 p.m.
Comb.: sitting-room (a) a room used for sitting in, a living-room; (b) a section of a poultry-house in which hens hatch eggs; (c) space available for sitting.