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shopping list
[f. shopping vbl. n. + list n.6]
1. A list of purchases to be made or shops to be visited.
1913Vanity Fair Sept. 7/2 You can easily clip half a dozen and attach them to your own shopping list. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 31 Mar. 6/5 We have a beautiful selection of Oriental Rugs and Jewels. Put our name on your shopping list. 1947W. Stevens Let. 5 Sept. (1967) 567 But now that the weather is growing cooler, I begin to look at my shopping list. 1977‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon xii. 256 He went to investigate, finding a message..scribbled on a sheet torn from a Shopping List pad.
2. transf. and fig. A list of items to be considered, acted upon, etc.; spec. a list of weaponry sought for purchase.
1959Manch. Guardian 8 July 3/3 He..did not want to put down a shopping-list of industries to be nationalised. 1963Times 21 Feb. 11/3 Ground-to-air missiles were on the ‘shopping list’ of defence equipment taken to Moscow by the Secretary-General of the External Affairs Ministry. 1969Nature 2 Aug. 436/2 The council should say which fields of medical and biological research come at the top of its shopping-list—biological organization, arterial disease, population control and drug dependence. 1970Cape Times 28 Oct. 26/5 His shopping list will include a full-back..and a creative mid-field player. 1975N.Y. Times 8 Sept. 1/3 The Israeli sources said negotiations had resumed on a shopping list that includes..F-15 fighter planes to match the MIG-23's deployed by Egypt and Syria. 1977Times 10 June 17/1 The [French] left have indeed a fearsome shopping list for nationalization. |