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BREAD-AND-BUTTER ISSUE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bread-and-butter issue mean?
• BREAD-AND-BUTTER ISSUE (noun)
The noun BREAD-AND-BUTTER ISSUE has 1 sense:
1. an issue whose settlement will affect financial resources
Familiarity information: BREAD-AND-BUTTER ISSUE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BREAD-AND-BUTTER ISSUE (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An issue whose settlement will affect financial resources
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
bread-and-butter issue; pocketbook issue
Hypernyms ("bread-and-butter issue" is a kind of...):
issue (an important question that is in dispute and must be settled)
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