Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A refraining from importing, or a failure to import.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A policy of
refusing toimport goods ; especially the policy in 18th century colonialAmerica of preventing imports fromBritain
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Examples
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With relations between Britain and her colonists deteriorating over the previous decade, Washington joins radicals in Virginia House of Burgesses adopting a nonimportation agreement
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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With relations between Britain and her colonists deteriorating over the previous decade, Washington joins radicals in Virginia House of Burgesses adopting a nonimportation agreement
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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With relations between Britain and her colonists deteriorating over the previous decade, Washington joins radicals in Virginia House of Burgesses adopting a nonimportation agreement
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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With relations between Britain and her colonists deteriorating over the previous decade, Washington joins radicals in Virginia House of Burgesses adopting a nonimportation agreement
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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He supported nonimportation measures and advocated the boycott of New York merchants who did not participate in them.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2009
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In 1770, Hopkins was appointed to a Providence Committee of Inspection, a group that attempted to enforce the agreements of nonimportation of British goods among area merchants.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2009
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In May 1774, John Singleton Copley and a hundred others signed a petition opposing the nonimportation agreement and expressing support for Royal Governor Hutchinson.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2009
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From 1766 until 1776, nonimportation was the main weapon employed by the colonists in their unsuccessful attempt to win their demands from the mother country by peaceful means.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2009
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The nonimportation movement cut imports from Britain by nearly half in 1769.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2009
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In support of the nonimportation movements of 1765 and 1769, the Daughters of Liberty used their traditional skills to weave yarn and wool into homemade cloth they called homespun, which made America less dependent on British textiles.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2009
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