wanted list
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- noun
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lista de deseados
- I better get home, before my mom puts me on the "10 Most Wanted List."
- the most wanted list
- the 10 Most Wanted list
- the Top Ten Most Wanted list
And that's why Harry Kane is at the top of Real Madrid's wanted list.
- And that's why Harry Kane is at the top of Real Madrid's wanted list.
- So the FBI was really after this guy and he was on a most wanted list and all that sort of thing.
- She's on the FBI's most wanted list for being convicted for killing a cop and went on the run to Cuba.
- But he later ended up sort of on the US most wanted list, as did another guy I met there called Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
Examples
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You're on the Worldwide Wanted List.
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We on the wanted list.
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I mean, big, on the "10 most wanted" list.
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Check your most wanted list.
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So the FBI was really after this guy and he was on a most wanted list and all that sort of thing.
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Which means we just jumped to the top of the wanted list.
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Your perp just hit the number one most wanted list.
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They are numbers four and five on our East Africa Most Wanted list.
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There I was on their most-wanted list.
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The FBI placed him on its Top 10 wanted list in 1997.
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'wanted' (sought, desired) with 'list' (a recorded sequence of names or items), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a list of items or people being sought. This adjective+noun compositional pattern is regular in English and common cross-linguistically, making it readily understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Wanted list comes from the simple act of writing down what you want on a list. Think of a shopper writing items to buy or police writing names to catch, so it means 'a list of items or people being looked for'.