non-exportationn.
/ˌnɒnɛkspɔːˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌnɑnˌɛkspɔrˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ Failure or refusal to export goods, esp. (U.S. History) in contravention of agreements or acts made by American colonial governments between 1768 and 1774 to prevent the export of goods to Britain or its colonies (cf. non-importation n.). Frequently attributive.
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non-exportation1774
1774 T. Jefferson in Virginia Gaz. 11 Aug. 4/1 The heavy injury that would arise to this country from an earlier adoption of the non-exportation plan.
1813 J. Pearson Let. 9 Mar. in Papers of John Steele (1924) II. 704 The Senate declined acting on..the Licence and non-exportation Bills.
1850 R. Sears Pict. Hist. Amer. Revol. 149 The people of South Carolina had flattered themselves that their non-importation and non-exportation agreements would induce the mother country to recede from her high pretensions.
1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) IV. v. 351 They..proposed non-importation and, if necessary, non-exportation as means of temporary resistance.
1907 Amer. Hist. Rev. 12 534 Just as non-importation and non-exportation were not illegal in the colonial view, but a peaceful means of forcing the repeal of obnoxious laws, so armies and loyalty were not imcompatible.
1947 William & Mary Q. 4 54 The acts of Congress, particularly the non-importation and non-exportation agreements, were harmful to the farmer.
1997 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 84 209 Ragsdale traces their success in part..to their decision to mobilize popular energies among the yeomen by sponsoring a debtors' holiday as an integral dimension of nonexportation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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