Word.ws English Dictionary

vaccine shopping

vaccine shopping noun: the practice of seeking out a certain vaccine that one considers to be superior to other available options, and refusing those other options.

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

Forms of vaccine shopping

alternative formvaccine-shopping

Origin of vaccine shopping

Compare shop around (“to actively search and compare options before making a selection or choice of vendor”).

Questions about vaccine shopping

What does vaccine shopping mean?
Vaccine shopping means the practice of seeking out a certain vaccine that one considers to be superior to other available options, and refusing those other options.
What part of speech is vaccine shopping?
Vaccine shopping is a noun.

Words near vaccine shopping in the dictionary

  1. vaccine point
  2. vaccine points
  3. Vaccine Revolt
  4. vaccine shopper
  5. vaccine shoppers
  6. vaccine shopping
  7. vaccine-injured
  8. vaccine-shop
  9. vaccine-shopped
  10. vaccine-shopping
  11. vaccine-shops

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vaccine shopping (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “vaccine shopping.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/vaccine_shopping. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.