shopping list

English

Noun

shopping list (plural shopping lists)

1. A list, written on e.g. a piece of paper, of items that need to be bought.

   Hyponym: grocery list

2. (figuratively) A list of related items; especially, a list of desired items.

   Coordinate terms: laundry list, want list, wanted list, wish list

   • 1978 December 9, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 14:

     This is no place for shopping list of my likes/dislikes/accomplishments, but if you're really special, & unattached, let's meet.

   • 2022 December 28, Philip Haigh, “Building the case for West Midlands rail improvements”, in RAIL, number 973, page 24:

     WMRE [West Midlands Rail Executive] would also go further, with other lines on its shopping list for upgrade.

Translations

list of items that need to be bought

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 購物清單／购物清单 (gòuwù qīngdān)

• Danish: indkøbsseddel c, indkøbsliste (da) c
• Dutch: boodschappenlijstje (nl) c
• Esperanto: aĉetlisto
• Finnish: ostoslista (fi)
• French: liste de commissions (fr) f, liste de courses (fr) f
• German: Einkaufsliste (de) f, Einkaufszettel (de) m
• Greek: λίστα με τα ψώνια f (lísta me ta psónia)
• Hungarian: bevásárlólista (hu)
• Japanese: 買い物リスト (kaimono risuto)
• Northern Sami: gávppašanlihppu
• Norwegian: handleliste (no) m or f
• Polish: lista zakupów f
• Portuguese: lista de compras f
• Romanian: listă de cumpărături f
• Russian: спи́сок поку́пок m (spísok pokúpok)
• Spanish: lista de la compra
• Swedish: inköpslista (sv) c
• Tibetan: ཉོ་ཆའི་ཐོ (nyo cha'i tho)
• Turkish: alışveriş listesi