shopping cart
noun
1
: a metal or plastic cart with four small wheels that is used for holding merchandise when shopping (as at a supermarket or department store)
… about the only amenities besides the jumbo-sized shopping carts are a few flatbed dollies to allow shoppers to get large appliances like refrigerators and washing machines to the cash register and then out to the parking lot.—
Jean Crichton
Jean Crichton2
: a temporary record of items selected for eventual purchase from an online vendor's website
To set up shop on the Internet, you need a commerce-enabled Web site, which includes the electronic shopping cart; a connection to the credit card network; and finally, a merchant account …—Tom Negrino
Tom NegrinoDelivery charges are the No. 1 reason shoppers abandon a virtual shopping cart, according to Jupiter Media Metrix. Every Internet shopper has a shipping-charge horror story.—Ellen Neuborn
Ellen NeubornExamples of shopping cart in a Sentence
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On the day Variety visits, a woman is pushing a shopping cart filled with assorted decor materials.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 22 Apr. 2026
The digital storefront is undergoing its most radical transformation since the invention of the shopping cart, but this time, the customer navigating the aisles might not be human.
—Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 20 Apr. 2026
Marcelin, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, stabbed Anna Laura Serrera Miranda to death in their apartment, a year after being released on lifetime parole in the 1963 case, then brought down the body in a bloody garbage bag shoved into a shopping cart.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2026
With the knife in hand, Guzman forced the child’s caretaker to walk ahead of a shopping cart in which the little boy was seated, police said.
—Selina Guevara, NBC news, 19 Apr. 2026
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Pat Saperstein, Variety, 22 Apr. 2026
The digital storefront is undergoing its most radical transformation since the invention of the shopping cart, but this time, the customer navigating the aisles might not be human.
—Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 20 Apr. 2026
Marcelin, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, stabbed Anna Laura Serrera Miranda to death in their apartment, a year after being released on lifetime parole in the 1963 case, then brought down the body in a bloody garbage bag shoved into a shopping cart.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2026
With the knife in hand, Guzman forced the child’s caretaker to walk ahead of a shopping cart in which the little boy was seated, police said.
—Selina Guevara, NBC news, 19 Apr. 2026
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“Shopping cart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopping%20cart. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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