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

Recent Examples on the Web That doesn’t mean high-leverage relievers should be off the Orioles’ pre-deadline shopping list. Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2024 Choose a digital gift card for an amount up to $500 for anyone on your shopping list. Meaghan Kenny, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Dec. 2023 Collectively, historians have drawn up a shopping list of causal commodities. Jeremy Adelman, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015 At the top of our shopping list is the Kammok Roo Double Recycled Hammock which is sure to elevate even the simplest campsites (and is also on sale for $64). Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for shopping list 

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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 27 Jul. 2024.

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