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retail therapy noun shopping when considered as an empowering leisure activity US- We’ve become a nation measuring out our lives in shopping bags and nursing our psychic ills through retail therapy. — Chicago Tribune, p. C2, 24 December 1986
- [T]ogether we formulated the Law of Retail Therapy: the larger your size, the further from the city center a woman is forced to forage. — Elizabeth Buchan, Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman, p. 9, 2002
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