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item | American Dictionary

item
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɑɪ·t̬əm/
one thing that is a part of a list or a collection of things:
There were several more items on the agenda.
An item is also a particular thing considered as one among others of its type:
a news item in this morning’s newspaper
basic food items such as butter

item | Business English

item
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈaɪtəm/us
COMMERCE
a single object, especially one that is for sale or is bought:
buy/purchase/select an item
The business sells items made from recycled waste products.
order/collect/return an item
food/household/fashion itemSupermarkets offer a wide range of food and household items.
commodity/consumer itemManufacturing commodity items is increasingly competitive.
expensive/valuable/luxury item
item of equipment/clothing/furniture
Radios with wooden cabinets have become collector's items.
individual/particular/specific itemSometimes customers who like a particular item of clothing will ask for it at more than one branch of the same store.
MEETINGS
one of several points on an official list of things to be discussed at a meeting:
Please let me have any items for the agenda by 4 pm today.
Although fixed agenda items had been agreed at the last round of talks, members obviously had their own objectives.
an item on the agendaItem 2 on the agenda is the Treasurer's report.
one of several things to be considered, to do, or to choose from:
an item on the/sb's agendaThe main item on my agenda for today is writing my month-end reports.
menu/list itemThe program allows the user to remove or add menu items.
The website has links to all the day's main news items.

Examples of item

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An important indicator of this is when critical manufacturing processes are in control and consistently producing items within quality standards and tolerances.
Promotional items include only those obtained under the same terms as those offered to the general public and at no additional cost to the government.
Units can be measured in terms of computer software units or computer software configuration items.
By developing this new category, it is anticipated that audit standards will be developed to address the specific items in that category.
In addition, other resources within the hierarchy of accounting literature are identified to aid users in accounting for these items.
The standards need not be applied to immaterial items.
Constructions, though, can take a long time to analyze, in large part because they can appear with such a range of lexical items.
Within such a field, the different items may exemplify a large range of semantic relations.
The identification of word class is critical in the analysis of children's novel lexical items.
The greater internal reliability for the child instrument is probably related to the greater number of items.
Moving down the proposed hierarchy there is increasingly more precise information which allows discrimination amongst increasingly similar items.
Lists of six, eight, 10 and 12 consonants were presented and subjects were asked to recall the last six items.
Experiment 1 showed that when the memory load is low (only four items) elderly subjects performed as well as young subjects.
Given the appropriate sources, however, it would be quite straightforward to distribute the various budgetary items of the ancien régime municipalities on the same lines.
Other items showed a marked skew but had sufficient variance to contribute significantly to overall scale variation.
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Collocations withitem

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These are words often used in combination with item.

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additional item
One additionalitem was dropped for parents'report because of its negative item-total correlation.
bulky item
The permitted materials include dredged material, sewage sludge, industrial fishprocessing waste, offshore man-made structures at sea, organic material of natural origin, and bulky items made of iron, steel, or concrete.
collectible item
Homies have become a highly collectible item among fans.
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