单词 | non-importation |
释义 | non-importationn. Failure or refusal to import goods, esp. (U.S. History) in contravention of agreements or acts made by American colonial governments between 1768 and 1774 to prevent the import of goods from Britain (cf. non-exportation n.). Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > importing and exporting > [noun] > importing > neglect or refusal to import non-importation1762 non-import1774 1762 J. Mordaunt Let. in E. Hamilton Mordaunts (1965) ix. 213 All People of Sense there are..exceedingly angry with Bostonians for drawing them into the Non Importation Agreement by which they have lost a great Branch of Trade. 1771 Ann. Reg. 1770 159 We [at Charlestown] have agreed to stop all commercial intercourse with New-York, on account of that Province breaking the Non-Importation Agreement. 1774 J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 347 I believe we shall agree to non-importation, non-consumption, and non-exportation. 1792 S. Whyte Coll. Poems 87 With a firm patriotic assoication, Support the spirit of non-importation. 1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines 213 The non-importation of the pure wine took place about 1815. 1836 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. V. xlii. 675 Congress..passed a non-importation act against the manufactures of Great Britain. 1854 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. III. viii. 152 The certainty that the country could not as yet manufacture for itself, and consequently that the schemes of non-importation would fail. 1883 E. Briggs Hist. Orig. Town Concord 53 He was one of other patriotic Philadelphia merchants who promoted and signed the non-importation agreement. 1895 14th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS App. X. 76 Giving proceedings of merchants on non-importation and their two agreements of 1 Aug. 1768 and 17 Oct. 1769. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 180/1 He suggested non-importation, instituted the Boston committees of correspondence, urged [etc.]. 1956 Econ. Hist. Rev. New Ser. 8 409 The imposition of the Townshend duties in 1767 renewed the colonist's determination to implement the non-importation agreements. 1998 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 85 930 The revolutionaries called on women to enforce boycotts through nonconsumption and nonimportation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1762 |
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