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wish list

–noun
a usually unwritten list of things one wishes for: Money is on everyone's wish list.

Origin:
1970–75
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wish list  
n.  An often mental list of things wanted or wished for.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
wish list

  1. n.
    a list of things one wishes to have. : I put a new car at the top of my wish list.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

wish list jargon
A list of desired features or bug fixes that probably won't get done for a long time, usually because the person responsible for the code is too busy or can't think of a clean way to do it. "OK, I'll add automatic filename completion to the wish list for the new interface."
Compare tick-list features.
[Does anybody call this a "want list"?]
[The Jargon File]
(1998-04-28)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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