laundry list

noun

: a usually long list of items
the laundry list of new consumer-protection billsN. C. Miller

Examples of laundry list in a Sentence

She described a laundry list of goals for the city's schools. He recited a laundry list of problems.
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Take, for instance, the behemoth climate disclosure rule – currently paused by litigation – that would require public companies to quantify and disclose a laundry list of information related to greenhouse gas emissions. John Berlau, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024 In fact, airlines publish a whole laundry list of such transgressions. Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 30 Oct. 2024 But Trump has gone farther, offering a laundry list of cuts to everyone from Social Security beneficiaries to car buyers. Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024 While my grandma was a stay-at-home mom, my mom went to work full-time and came home to a laundry list of chores and our extracurricular commitments. Stephanie Montes, refinery29.com, 22 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for laundry list 

Word History

First Known Use

1958, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of laundry list was in 1958

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“Laundry list.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laundry%20list. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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