chocolate biscuit

collocation in English

meaningsofchocolateandbiscuit

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chocolate
noun
uk
/ˈtʃɒk.lət/us
/ˈtʃɑːk.lət/
a sweet, usually brown, food made from cacao seeds, that is usually sold in a block and is often used as a flavour for desserts, ...
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biscuit
noun
uk
/ˈbɪs.kɪt/us
/ˈbɪs.kɪt/
UK
a small, flat cake that is dry and ...
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(Definition ofchocolateandbiscuitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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At present, there are difficult distinctions between—to use a well-known example—different types ofchocolatebiscuit.
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There is also a type ofchocolatebiscuitwhich one buys at grocery shops and which to all intents and purposes is a biscuit.
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There is discrimination between the ordinary sweet biscuit and thechocolatebiscuit.
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In my area there are nearly 13,000 old-age pensioners for whom achocolatebiscuitwith a cup of tea is one of their luxuries.
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For an elderly person a limited pension thechocolatebiscuitwith an afternoon cup of tea is a very real com- fort.
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Nor must we overlook the challenging and as yet unsolved problem of how much chocolate makes achocolatebiscuit.
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The problem, briefly, is that there is a kind ofchocolatebiscuitsold in sweet shops which is very close to chocolate bars, with a different filling.
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I have kept thechocolatebiscuit.
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All of us who, from time to time, take a break and often consume a well-known product, again achocolatebiscuit, pay value added tax on that biscuit.
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Why should thechocolatebiscuitbe classed as sweets or confectionery when chocolate biscuits can be included in tins of mixed biscuits which are sold as sweet biscuits?
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I understand that in 1961 the output of biscuits was 480,000 tons, of which 40,000 tons were chocolate biscuits.
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He also included chocolate biscuits, which form an essential part of the housewives' shopping.
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I have seen a lot of questions about whether chocolate biscuits are confections or biscuits.
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It covers 35 different types of article ranging from household and toilet requisites to garden equipment and umbrellas, chocolate biscuits, and all sorts of things.
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We pick the cocoa beans—we people who have never tasted chocolate biscuits.
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Purchase tax on confectionery (including chocolate biscuits) yielded about £75 million in the calendar year 1971.
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Here are some of the exports containing sugar—biscuits, chocolate biscuits.
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It is estimated that purchase tax collected on confectionery including chocolate biscuits in 1971–72 and 1972–73 was £74–6 million and about £747 million respectively.
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The firm was employing about 3,000 people in one factory manufacturing chocolate biscuits.
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The result of all this has been catastrophic on the sales of chocolate biscuits.
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