1A large basket, typically one with a lid, used to carry provisions.
（多指有盖）购物篮
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I clutched the market basket in my hands, full of flour and apples and other foods.
1.1Economics A selected list of food and household items chosen as a representative sample of common purchases and used to measure the cost of living.
菜篮子（指代表性食物和家用品目录，用以测量生活费用）
East Europeans hardly have access to the same market basket of goods
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A market basket of foodstuffs costs 1.3 times more in the Far East than in an average Russian region, but the per capita income is 4.2 percent lower.
You can only use the ingredients listed in the market basket.
The debate has already begun about just what goes into the market basket and there are suggestions that the recent market basket was just too full of non-essential goodies.
The 3.5 year bond will pay out 55 per cent on any growth of the stock market basket plus 100 per cent of the initial capital deposited back at the end of the term.
The teachers are demanding a 400 percent raise that would bring their salaries up to the cost of the basic family market basket for Venezuela, estimated at US $925 a month.