noun

• A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
• (Internet) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
• (figurative) A set or collection of intangible things.
  "The basket of issues that developing countries had vigorously wanted addressed such as agriculture, SANDD and implementation-related issues were given scant attention by developed countries for most part of the conference."
• (basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
  "The point guard drove toward the basket."

verb

• (transitive) To place in a basket or baskets.
• (transitive, publishing) To cross-collateralize the royalty advances for multiple works so that the creator is not paid until all of those works have achieved a certain level of success.
  "Foreign language paperback, serial and book club would be basketed together in a 50/50 subsidiary rights clause."