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What does item mean?
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item

An item is a particular thing that is separate from other things. The first item to discuss at today's meeting is the noise from the new road. There are a number of items here that belonged to your father.

item

(= point) a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list he noticed an item in the New York Times she had several items on her shopping list the main point on the agenda was taken up first a whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection they reduced the price on many items (= detail) a small part that can be considered separately from the whole it was perfect in all details (= detail, point) an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole several of the details are similar a point of information (used when listing or enumerating items) also a length of chain, item a hook — Philip Guedalla (= token) an individual instance of a type of symbol the word'error' contains three tokens of 'r'

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Simple sentences

This is a real popular item.
Put price labels on each individual item.
Each item was described in painstaking detail.
The first item he bought was an alarm clock.
For a refund, you must return the item unopened.
In places where it snows a lot, kerosene is an indispensable item.
This ring is a magic item that gives great power to its user.
The above-mentioned mail item has been duly delivered.
Now we come to the first agenda item.
What is this item called?
There is an unexpected item in the bagging area.
If I do not get the item this week, I will make a complaint to PayPal.
I received an item that I did not order.
He began to suspect something was wrong when the seller didn't allow him to test the item before buying it.
This is a collector's item.
Did you see the item in the paper about their wedding?
To use an item simply click on its icon in the inventory.
Are you two an item?
Let's move on to the next item.
Resale of this item is prohibited.
Tom always orders the cheapest item on the menu.
It's a reproduction item.

Movie subtitles

So, you two an item?
Most expensive item on the menu.
Sounds to me like you wish to add another item to your long list of mistakes.
What's the next item on the program?
Dewitt, it was downright decent of you to give me that little item in your column.
Well, the principal item is that letter of Leslie's I mentioned to you.
Seventeen years I've wanted that item, and have been trying to get it.
That sort of reputation might be good business bringing high-priced jobs and making it easier to deal with the enemy but a lot more money would have been one more item on your side of the scales.
There's one other item.
Would you kindly explain what the deuce this item means?
This was another item to establish my alibi.
Well, here's an item of history.
How about a nice, juicy item for the morning edition?
Just a minor item, but you may want it for the record.
Except one certain item.
But the early edition of the paper carried a little item about your daughter.
Not that the item was serious at all, but I just thought I'd phone you.
I appreciate that spirit of fair play, Mr. Haggerty. but you see, my office cabled me a copy of your little item.
Put that item at the head of the society column.
This does not include the tip to the hat-check girl, which was my personal item.
As a matter of fact, you know, that's quite a collector's item.
Well, she's a very nice little item named Sonya.
A few days ago I read an item in the paper regarding Egbert Norton.
You seem to have everything except perhaps the negligible item of proof.
Still, here's an item that might interest you.
Where did you get that news item?
Just read that disgraceful item, Horace.
Just an hour till I go on the air and not one single juicy item.
Ladies and gentlemen, here's a flash news item.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, for the next item to be offered I have here this exquisite Directoire desk.

News and current affairs

But that is the one item most Republicans won't touch.
But another, much more important news item has received much less attention: Greece exported less in 2013 than in 2012.
Perhaps the most urgent item on the world agenda is a more realistic view of the global development challenge.
If one believes that less overweening unions and a smaller state are the first steps toward a better supply side in Europe, this referendum item deserves praise.
The main item on the agenda now is to design better social insurance, in order to minimize the pain from reallocation, be it from deregulation, technological progress, or globalization.
Indeed, the upcoming summit is missing an important agenda item: a European Fiscal Authority (EFA) that, in partnership with the ECB, could do what the ECB cannot do on its own.
The most important item that parents in any society try to buy is a head start for their children.
For apparel consumers, for example, quality is second only to price when choosing a store, and second only to fashion when choosing a specific item.
Enlargement is the most important item on the European agenda, and the Treaty of Nice is its cornerstone.
It used to be thought that scarcity created value, that the more produced of a given item, the less its value.
So when the G-20 countries meet in Washington on November 15 for their crisis summit, this is the agenda item that should dominate their discussion.
A major item of discussion in Syria is the revival of Islam as an alternative to a political and economic system offering few incentives except to regime grandees.
For the past quarter-century, a major agenda item for the international development organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, has been to bolster developing nations' financial markets.
Bringing into the EU applicant countries from Central and Eastern Europe, as well from the Baltic region, however, remains the single most important item on the European agenda in our time.
Each of these methods recovers a different amount of the embodied energy of the plastic item.
Yet, amidst the news reports over the past few months of financial fraud, bloodshed in India and Gaza, and global economic disasters, one item stood out for its bravery and nobility.
The second item on the agenda is a pull-back from quantitative easing in the US, which is subjecting the emerging economies to a flood of capital, rising commodity prices, inflation, and asset bubbles.
The fourth item concerns the fact that the global economy will be out of balance so long as the US runs large current-account deficits.
We have lived in a purely fiat money system ever since - meaning that our money's value is not backed by gold or any other physical item.
WASHINGTON, DC - The International Monetary Fund's annual meetings will be held on October 10-12 in Washington DC, and the world's financial sector is a central item on the agenda.
It also happens to be an important - often the most important - item of human welfare and development.

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