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/non'im pawr tay"sheuhn, -pohr-/, n.failure or refusal to import.[1760-70, Amer.; NON- + IMPORTATION]
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Nonimportation — Non*im por*ta tion, n. Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
nonimportation — [spelling only] … English World dictionary
nonimportation — (|) ̷ ̷+ noun Usage: often attributive : cessation or prohibition of the import of goods from another country especially as employed against Great Britain by the American colonies in the Revolutionary era in retaliation for the Townshend Acts and … Useful english dictionary
Nonimportation Agreements — ▪ American colonial history (1765–75), in U.S. colonial history, attempts to force British recognition of political rights through application of economic pressure. In reaction to the Stamp Act (1765) and the Townshend Acts (1767), colonial … Universalium
nonimportation — noun A policy of refusing to import goods; especially the policy in 18th century colonial America of preventing imports from Britain … Wiktionary
nonimportation — n. lack of importation, lack of bringing in goods from another country … English contemporary dictionary
nonimportation — non·importation … English syllables
nonimportation — non im•por•ta′tion n … From formal English to slang
Nonimportation agreement — An agreement, made in protest against British taxation, between the American colonies to boycott all goods shipped from the British Isles and the West Indies … Ballentine's law dictionary
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