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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Methodology To gather the data, our team created a shopping list of 25 Fourth of July cookout items. Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2025 The following Monday, Maureen gave Flora a shopping list—ingredients for a salade Niçoise, half a loaf of bread (ancient grain), two pears (French butter), and three gerbera daisies. Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 15 June 2025 Robin Wenzel, group head of the Wells Fargo Agri-Food Institute, agreed that more shoppers, concerned about both their health and their budgets, are dropping snacks off the shopping list. Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 1 May 2025 Another transfer window, another shopping list for Manchester United. Carl Anka, New York Times, 16 June 2025 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 13 Jul. 2025.

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