shopping basket
Britishnoun
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a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
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the list of items an internet shopper chooses to buy at one time from a website
Example Sentences
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You’ve got to earn the right each and every day to be in that shopping basket, particularly when budgets are so constrained.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
Some shopping basket goods including bacon, cereals and processed fish became cheaper last year, according to the data.
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026
Nevertheless, if you look at the raw data, prices are lower — in some cases by a considerable amount — or just slightly higher for many of the food items in the Thanksgiving shopping basket.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 14, 2025
Given the cost of living crisis, consumers are forced to make frugal choices when it comes to their shopping basket and may reject what could be seen as a premium product.
From Salon • Aug. 28, 2023
I pick up the shopping basket, put it over my arm.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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