shopping cart

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noun

a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.

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Origin of shopping cart

First recorded in 1925–30

Words nearby shopping cart

shopper, shopping, shopping bag, shopping-bag lady, shopping basket, shopping cart, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping list, shopping mall, shopping plaza

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How to use shopping cart in a sentence

If you suddenly discovered you’re an artist but all you have is some printer paper and a pencil you’ve had laying around the house since the last time you went to Ikea, fill up that shopping cart with these 10 essential pieces of art supplies.
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You may remember that several months ago, Google told us that GoogleBot can add items to your shopping cart.
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I could pop into my neighborhood Gristedes on 97th Street and fill my shopping cart with Pop-Tarts, milk, you name it, and, at check-out, marvel at the savings.
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It can be something as simple as adding extra items to a shopping cart at the pharmacy to distract from something that might bring unwanted judgement.
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For example, an online retailer discovers a lot of people are shopping at their online store and adding items to their shopping cart but then abandoning the cart rather than purchasing the items.
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Or maybe it was from the handles of a grocery store shopping cart.
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She wheels an injured boy out in a shopping cart full of watermelons.
Westgate's Chilling Security Video Reveals Shopping Mall Bloodbath|Nina Strochlic|September 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“I like the symbolism,” Ware says slyly before reaching for a shopping cart.
Pushing for Justice at Walmart|Sally Kohn|December 16, 2013|DAILY BEAST
She was pushing Suri in a shopping cart at a New York Whole Foods.
Did Scientology Eventually Bring Down Cruise-Holmes Marriage?|Ramin Setoodeh, Lizzie Crocker|June 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Hughes was eventually caught in 1993 after he was spotted pushing a shopping cart containing the body of one of his victims.
LA’s Grisly Woman Killer|Christine Pelisek|October 27, 2011|DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for shopping cart

shopping cart

noun

the usual US and Canadian word for shopping basket

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