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Definition of Nonessentials
1. nonessential [n] - See also: nonessential
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonessentials
Literary usage of Nonessentials
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the War Trade Board by United States War Trade Board (1920)
"Relaxation of the Embargo on Nonessentials. By the middle of the winter 1917-18 it
... They were using their exports of these nonessentials, moreover, ..."
2. Proceedings of the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational by Dept. of Superintendence (1899)
"In the elimination of nonessentials a certain blind movement was discernible
prior to the advent of the Committee of Fifteen. An up-to-date high-school girl ..."
3. Report of the Federal Trade Commission on Sugar Supply and Prices. November by United States Federal Trade Commission, George Asbury Stephens (1920)
"CONSUMPTION OF MANUFACTURERS OF Nonessentials UNCHECKED. A considerable part of
the year's consumption of sugar by manufacturers of nonessentials should ..."
4. Readings in the economics of war by John Maurice Clark, Walton Hale Hamilton, Harold Glenn Moulton (1918)
"If I really wanted to accomplish such a disloyal purpose as to keep men out of
the war industries, I should spend as much money as I could for nonessentials ..."
5. Prices and Price Control in Great Britain and the United States During the by Simon Litman (1920)
"The rationing of manufacturers using sugar began in October, 1917, when those
producing nonessentials were limited to 50 per cent of their normal ..."
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