| 单词 |
non-importation |
| 释义 |
non-imporˈtation
[non- 1.]
Neglect or refusal to import. b. attrib. in non-importation agreement or non-importation act, applied to various agreements or acts made by the American colonial governments (from 1768 to 1774) to prevent the importation of goods from Great Britain and her colonies.
1770Chron. in Ann. Reg. 159 We [at Charles Town] have agreed to stop all commercial intercourse with New-York, on account of that Province breaking the Non-Importation Agreement, which we strictly adhere to. 1774[see non-consumption]. 1774(title) A Friendly Address to all Reasonable Americans,..in which the Necessary Consequences..of a General Non-Importation are Fairly Stated. 1833C. Redding Mod. Wines 213 The non-importation of the pure wine took place about 1815. 1849–50Alison Hist. Europe VII. xlii. §54. 135 Congress..passed a non-importation act against the manufactures of Great Britain. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. IV. xxxii. 79 The certainty that the country could not as yet manufacture for itself, and consequently..that the schemes of non-importation would fail.
So non-imˈporting ppl. a. (Webster, 1847.) |
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