grocery list
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈɡroʊsəri lɪst/
- US
:
lista de la compra
- Before going to the grocery store, she wrote a detailed grocery list to ensure she wouldn't forget anything.
I'm like going through my head grocery list, sunglasses, keys.
- I'm like going through my head grocery list, sunglasses, keys.
- With these vision sticks, you can record your deepest spiritual thoughts and grocery lists.
- But that's not a template so much as it is a grocery list of ingredients that you then add your own ingredients to it.
Examples
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Don't forget the grocery list.
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Some people live in a world of calendars and grocery lists and carpools.
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Uh, did you get my grocery list?
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Is the grocery list ready?
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This is your grocery list and your dry cleaning.
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Get this grocery list to Phil and deliver it to my house.
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The next morning, Mom handed him a grocery list for after school.
Fiction book (2000) -
On Tuesday afternoon, I gather up the bills to be paid, my grocery list, and my laundry bag.
Blog text (12) -
For example, during make-believe play, children write down a grocery list just as they have seen adults do.
Academic text (2008) -
We have a large chalkboard in our laundry room that everyone writes the grocery list on.
Blog text (27)
Synonyms
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1.0
An ordered set of names or things for reference
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1.0
A list of things to buy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun–noun compound combines 'grocery' (items to buy at a food/household store) with 'list' (a recorded sequence), so the meaning 'a list of items to be bought' is directly derivable from the constituents. This compositional, cross-linguistically common pattern (compound specifying the type of list) is predictable for a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Grocery list comes from a simple picture: before going to the food shop, a person writes down the things they need, with grocery meaning the shop for food and list meaning a written group of items. So, grocery list means 'a note of items to buy at the store'.