shopping needs
- noun
- To ensure all your shopping needs are met, make a list before heading to the supermarket.
Examples
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An attractive and strong city center that meets local shopping needs yet honors our rural character.
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All in time for your holiday shopping needs!
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In the meantime, it would be a pleasure to help madam with any of her shopping needs.
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Well, all the shopping needs that we can meet because there's lots of things that you might want to buy that we don't sell.
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During the busy holiday season, many stores offer discounts to cater to your shopping needs.
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Local farmers markets are a great place to find fresh produce that meets your shopping needs.
Synonyms
A list of things to buy
A written or mental list of food and other items to buy at the store
How Essential
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'requirements or items a person wants or needs to buy when shopping' is directly and compositionally derived from 'shopping' (buying goods) + 'needs' (necessary things). This is a common, transparent noun phrase with clear cross-linguistic parallels, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to understand it.
Etymology
Shopping needs comes from the simple picture of making a list of what you must buy: your shopping list of needs, like milk or bread. That's why it means the 'items to buy' or 'requirements' someone has when they go shopping.