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vaccine-shopping

vaccine-shopping is the alternative form of vaccine shopping.

vaccine-shopping is the present participle of vaccine-shop.

Meaning of vaccine shopping

Noun

vaccine shopping (uncountable)

  1. (neologism) The practice of seeking out a certain vaccine that one considers to be superior to other available options, and refusing those other options.
    • Because vaccines remain in short supply in the United States, there’s been little evidence of vaccine shopping. But preferences have cropped up in Europe, driven partly by nationalism […] and partly by a hunt for the most effective shot possible.2021 March 1, Robert Weisman, “State officials, community leaders try to dissuade residents from vaccine ‘shopping’”, in The Boston Globe

Meaning of vaccine-shop

Verb

vaccine-shop (third-person singular simple present vaccine-shops, present participle vaccine-shopping, simple past and past participle vaccine-shopped)

  1. (intransitive, neologism) To seek out a certain vaccine that one considers to be superior to other available options.

Questions about vaccine-shopping

What is vaccine-shopping the alternative form of?
Vaccine-shopping is the alternative form of vaccine shopping.

Words near vaccine-shopping in the dictionary

  1. vaccine shoppers
  2. vaccine shopping
  3. vaccine-injured
  4. vaccine-shop
  5. vaccine-shopped
  6. vaccine-shopping
  7. vaccine-shops
  8. vaccined
  9. vaccinee
  10. vaccinees
  11. vacciner

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vaccine-shopping (page history and authors); vaccine shopping (page history and authors); vaccine-shop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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