market basket
noun
: a variety of consumer goods and services used to calculate a consumer price index
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Tart and fresh, with a splash of red-berry fruits—not market basket fresh, but more like freshly picked off the bush—and a little bramble.
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Lana Bortolot, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
In 2023, the cost of the market basket of food items decreased 4.5% overall.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2024
With such Thanksgiving staples as turkey, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie mix cheaper this year, the bureau’s total market basket cost is 5%, or about $2.90, less than last year.
—Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
That year, the farm bureau’s Thanksgiving market basket reached a record high of $64.06.
—Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
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Lana Bortolot, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
In 2023, the cost of the market basket of food items decreased 4.5% overall.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2024
With such Thanksgiving staples as turkey, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie mix cheaper this year, the bureau’s total market basket cost is 5%, or about $2.90, less than last year.
—Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
That year, the farm bureau’s Thanksgiving market basket reached a record high of $64.06.
—Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Market basket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/market%20basket. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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