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BASKET(finance)
basket(1)(dictionary)
Basket(money)
basket(2)(dictionary)
Basket(medicine)
Moses basket(dictionary)
basket case(dictionary)
Basket - Basketball(gambling)
clothes basket(dictionary)

basket (oh)




[Date: 1300-1400; Origin: Probably from an unrecorded Old North French baskot, from Latin bascauda 'bowl for washing dishes']
a container made of thin pieces of plastic, wire, or wood woven together, used to carry things or put things in
::a shopping basket
::a basket full of vegetables
::a picnic basket
clothes/laundry basket
(=for dirty clothes)
a net with a hole at the bottom attached to a metal ring, through which the ball is thrown in basketball
make/shoot a basket
(=to throw the ball through the basket)
technical the average or total value of a number of different goods or currencies
-see also put all your eggs in one basket at egg 1 (6), wastepaper basket