mundane item

collocation in English

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mundane
adjective
uk
/mʌnˈdeɪn/us
/mʌnˈdeɪn/
very ordinary and therefore ...
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item
noun[C]
uk
/ˈaɪ.təm/us
/ˈaɪ.t̬əm/
something that is part of a list or group ...
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(Definition ofmundaneanditemfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmundane item

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It may involve merely the provision of a chair, which, after all, is a fairlymundaneitemin many people's private homes.
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The "tengu" answers truthfully that he is frightened of a kind of plant or some othermundaneitem.
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At first, most magical items work exactly like amundaneitemof the same type.
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Consider, in that context, such mundane items as employees' canteens.
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It is established that the term "literary work" includes such mundane items as street directories and railway timetables.
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These have included calendars, directories, football coupons, mathematical tables and railway timetables, and many other equally mundane items.
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I refer to mundane items such as shopping for food, running errands, or even the responsibility for a pet such as children might have in their own family unit.
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His contacts with the warden included requests for new shirts, radio and other mundane items.
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Other sorts of storehouses such as outbuildings ("naya") and sheds ("koya") were used to store more mundane items.
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He continued his work on paper, household linens, and other mundane items.
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Trading of both luxuries and mundane items was important to all groups.
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Art ware was always produced alongside the output of more mundane items and never constituted a major proportion of the potterys output.
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