laundry list

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noun Informal.

a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.

Origin of laundry list

First recorded in 1955–60

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Related Words for laundry list

agenda, enumeration

Examples from the Web for laundry list

Contemporary Examples of laundry list

At times the speech had a laundry-list, State of the Union flavor, with lines about creating “600,000 jobs in natural gas alone.”
Obama’s DNC Speech: A Sober Call to Arms
Howard Kurtz
September 7, 2012

British Dictionary definitions for laundry list

laundry list

noun

US and Canadian a list of items perceived as being longa laundry list of complaints

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