shopping list

noun

|Updated on: 11 Jun 2018

Definition of shopping list

: a list of items to be purchased; broadly : a list of related items

the biggest possible shopping list of budget cuts
—Leonard Silk

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Recent Examples of shopping list from the Web

Anthony Garcia's shopping list -- from the ordinary to the ominous.

— CBS News, "Was revenge the motive behind Omaha stabbing deaths?," 2 June 2018
Of course, Rihanna's Fenty Body Lava is at the top of my shopping list this year, but the viral body makeup is already sold out (for now).

— tiffany dodson, SELF, "12 Sparkly Shimmer Products for Face, Hair, and Body on Sale Right Now," 24 May 2018
Most Americans don’t put prickly pear on their shopping lists.

— nathanael johnson, WIRED, "Are Avocados Toast?," 24 May 2018
With organic produce and natural skin-care products slowly becoming ubiquitous in the daily routines of even the most laissez-faire, there’s one item on weekly shopping lists that often gets overlooked: gum.

— jenna rennert, Vogue, "This All-Natural Chewing Gum Will Make You Second-Guess Your Next Stick of Bubblegum," 23 May 2018
Each product viewed in 3D is automatically kept in a shopping list.

— michelle higgins, New York Times, "Buying Art Doesn’t Have to Be Intimidating: Yes, There’s an App," 20 Feb. 2018
According to Spanish publication Don Balon, the 25 year old shot stopper is high on Klopp's shopping list, with the German seemingly at his wits' end with his current custodians, Loris Karius and Simon Mignolet.

— SI.com, "Liverpool Keen to Splash Coutinho Cash on World Class Atletico Keeper Jan Oblak," 7 Jan. 2018
Longtime Sauvie Island beachgoers will want to nix the six-pack of Rainier from their shopping lists.

— eder campuzano, OregonLive.com, "Put away that six-pack: Sauvie Island's booze ban starts tomorrow," 30 Apr. 2018
If your 2021 shopping list is filling up Is Junior's college tuition tab on the horizon?

— cleveland.com, "5 great ways to invest your tax refund (NerdWallet)," 27 Apr. 2018

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