imported food

collocation in English

meaningsofimportandfood

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import
noun
uk
/ˈɪm.pɔːt/us
/ˈɪm.pɔːrt/
goods bought by one country ...
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food
noun[C or U]
uk
/fuːd/us
/fuːd/
something that people and animals eat, or plants absorb, to keep ...
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(Definition ofimportandfoodfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Other changes included the reduction in exemptions to selectedimportedfoodand beverages, the unification of vehicular registration fees and the increase in the production and consumption tax to tobacco.
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News articles regarding thousands of tons ofimportedfoodbeing condemned as unfit for human consumption (particularly wheat, oil and rice) are common.
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Are we to understand that it is part of the new official policy to taximportedfood?
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All illegallyimportedfoodhas evaded official controls designed to verify compliance with food safety standards and could pose a danger to human health.
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They consume a goodly proportion of home-produced food, as well asimportedfood.
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In other words, although we have less therewith to pay forimportedfood, we have been importing more food than ever before.
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If he were dependent onimportedfoodhe would starve in time of war and go very hungry in time of peace during balance-of-payments crises.
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If we are not careful we shall become a concrete jungle, with cattle standing on concrete, eatingimportedfood.
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He rightly drew a very careful distinction betweenimportedfoodand food produced in this country.
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Medical officers of health employed by local authorities however have powers to examineimportedfood and take samples for examination by an appropriate laboratory.
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They cannot undo the globalisation of trade and the enormous increase in the amount ofimportedfoodthat is available.
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The agency will have responsibilities in relation toimportedfood, just as it will in relation to domestically produced food.
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We should try to raise from levies onimportedfooda large part of the subsidy.
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It is estimated that personal expenditure on home andimportedfoodin 1964 was approaching £5 ½ thousand million.
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Between the two wars, our foreign investment income was about £200 million and ourimportedfoodcost about £400 million.
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If in the case ofimportedfoodthey are subsidising the consumer, then they are subsidising the consumer in the case of home-produced food.
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We have no intention of imposing any such levies onimportedfood.
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