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

Examples of shopping list in a Sentence

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This award-winning festival includes over 8- local vendors selling crafts, jewelry, holiday decorations, food, and one-of-a-kind gifts for everyone on your shopping list. Miriam Porter, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024 Rice is now a staple food item in my fridge and a 10-pound bag of jasmine rice is constantly on my grocery shopping list. Sarah Mosqueda, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024 AncestryDNA is perfect for all those hard-to-buy-for folks on your shopping list. Elsie Boskamp, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024 But the measure reads like a shopping list more than a sound policy proposal. Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2024 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 16 Nov. 2024.

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