Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large basket used to carry marketing.
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Examples
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Until 2000, the most common indicator of the rate of inflation was the amount of change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measured price fluctuations in a market-basket of goods.
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"The whole notion of going to one place to buy everything in one fell swoop because you are sure of a total market-basket savings may go away," says Leon Nicholas of consultancy Kantar Retail.
Phone-Wielding Shoppers Strike Fear Into Retailers Miguel Bustillo 2010
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Until 2000, the most common indicator of the rate of inflation was the amount of change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measured price fluctuations in a market-basket of goods.
June « 2008 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2008
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In a recent market-basket study of back-to-school supplies at Target and Wal-Mart, Goldman Sachs retail analyst Adrianne Shapira found Wal-Mart prices less than 1% below Target's.
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He wanted profitability based upon the ability to review demographics data, point-of-sale data and market-basket analysis.
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It represented the solemn solitude of a lofty forest; a girl, in Swiss costume, was flying in terror, and as she fled flinging a piece of meat behind her which she had taken from a little market-basket hanging upon her arm.
Uncle Silas 2003
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Alice, who by this time had followed her friend along the passage to her bedroom, and had seen how widely the packages were spread about, bethought herself that the market-basket should be a large one.
Can You Forgive Her? 1993
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But she went flitting about from room to room, declaring that this thing must be taken, and that other, till the market-basket would have become very large indeed.
Can You Forgive Her? 1993
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"Hurry up, mademoiselle!" cries the engineer to a rosy-cheeked girl in sabots, rushing with a market-basket under one arm and a live goose under the other.
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Clad, therefore, in her thick cloak and warm boots, with her wide, red - knitted woollen shawl over her head and portly market-basket on arm,
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