shopping listn.
/ˈʃɒpɪŋ lɪst/, U.S. /ˈʃɑpɪŋ ˌlɪst/ 1. A list of purchases to be made or shops to be visited.
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society > trade and finance > buying > [noun] > shopping > shopping list
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1852 Daily Commerc. Reg. (Sandusky, Ohio) 11 Aug. A lady's shopping list of laces and ribbons.
1913 Dress & Vanity Fair Sept. 7/2 You can easily clip half a dozen and attach them to your own shopping list.
1947 W. Stevens Let. 5 Sept. (1967) 567 Now that the weather is growing cooler, I begin to look at my shopping list.
1975 N. Freeling What are Bugles blowing For? vi. 37 She tacked off to write ‘scouring powder’ on her shopping list.
1997 Stocking Fillas 1997–98 Innovations plc 54/2 A handy wipe-clean shopping list with protective wallet and water-based pen.
2009 Wall St. Jrnl. 9 Nov. b1/5 Giving shopping lists to clerks who then fetched the groceries.
2. In extended use. A list of items to be considered or acted on; spec. a list of weaponry sought for purchase, esp. by a country.
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society > communication > record > list > [noun]
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [noun] > weapons for purchase
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1923 Evening World (Bloomington, Indiana) 16 Apr. 1/2 The first job undertaken by Postmaster General New..was to prepare his shopping list for the new fiscal year.
1933 Pop. Mech. July 125A/1 This new shopping list of the army contains many items which are a vast improvement over implements used in the last war.
1959 Manch. Guardian 8 July 3/3 He..did not want to put down a shopping-list of industries to be nationalised.
1975 N.Y. Times 8 Sept. 1/3 A shopping list that includes..F-15 fighter planes to match the MIG-23's deployed by Egypt and Syria.
1997 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 22 May a12/1 Until two years ago, Maryland's shopping list was like any other state's, with its government seeking bids on data processing, canned fruit and road salt.
2007 Yoga Mag. Oct. 41/2 Do not treat this as something to accomplish like reaching a goal or this will result in becoming part of the egoic shopping list of never ending un-fulfilment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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