0 something that is part of a list or group of things:
Buyers from stores are given the opportunity to go through fashion collections item by item and place orders.
There's an interesting item on the back page.
There are three items on the agenda.
The restaurant has a long menu of about 50 items.
the last item on the list
1 one thing that is a part of a list or a collection of things:
2 a single object, especially one that is for sale or is bought:
individual/particular/specific item Sometimes customers who like a particular item of clothing will ask for it at more than one branch of the same store.
commodity/consumer item Manufacturing commodity items is increasingly competitive.
food/household/fashion item Supermarkets offer a wide range of food and household items.
3 one of several points on an official list of things to be discussed at a meeting:
4 one of several things to be considered, to do, or to choose from:
Other items showed a marked skew but had sufficient variance to contribute significantly to overall scale variation.
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.
Experiment 1 showed that when the memory load is low (only four items) elderly subjects performed as well as young subjects.
Lists of six, eight, 10 and 12 consonants were presented and subjects were asked to recall the last six items.
Moving down the proposed hierarchy there is increasingly more precise information which allows discrimination amongst increasingly similar items.
The greater internal reliability for the child instrument is probably related to the greater number of items.
The identification of word class is critical in the analysis of children's novel lexical items.
Within such a field, the different items may exemplify a large range of semantic relations.
