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View definitions for want list

want list

noun as in hit list

noun as in laundry list

noun as in wish list

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Investigators found a note among Workman's belongings headed "I want list".

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He recorded a cylinder recording early in the century that's yet to be found – that's on my want list.

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As the Dodgers compile their want list to improve their team, they should pay equally close attention to their fans’ wish checklist.

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From there he eventually built out a story to go along with that nascent imagery, assembling a growing want list of songs, including old soul and R&B, vintage British rock and more of a wide and varied taste.

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But Manchester United have a big bill, and it will take more than one man to fit it: the Independent provides a handy summary of their summer want list, saying there is a “general desire to bring in a top-class forward, two midfielders, a defender and a winger, two of whom are ‘warriors’.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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