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. 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 See All Example Sentences for market basket

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First Known Use

1943, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of market basket was in 1943

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“Market basket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/market%20basket. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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