shopping list

noun

: a list of items to be purchased
broadly : a list of related items
the biggest possible shopping list of budget cuts Leonard Silk

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Vegas casinos and hotels are buying up palm trees and driving up the prices beyond what municipal budgets can afford, so more palms may not even be on the shopping list. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2025 At the top of our shopping list is the roomy $22 Lovevook Laptop Backpack that’s the ideal personal item for trips of any duration. Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 13 Feb. 2025 That’s four weekends left to knock out that shopping list starting tomorrow with Black Friday. Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024 Robert Murray of FanSided recently reported that Scherzer topped the list of the Blue Jays' offseason shopping list. Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shopping list

Word History

First Known Use

1852, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of shopping list was in 1852

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“Shopping list.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopping%20list. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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