laundry list
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laundry list

noun

Definition of LAUNDRY LIST

: a usually long list of items <the laundry list of new consumer-protection bills — N. C. Miller>

Examples of LAUNDRY LIST

  1. She described a laundry list of goals for the city's schools.
  2. He recited a laundry list of problems.

First Known Use of LAUNDRY LIST

1958

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