closed season
Americannoun
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Still another proposal calls for a closed season on conch.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
TCI does have an annual three-month "closed" season on exports but environmentalists say it falls far short of what is required.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2020
Each was convicted of taking oysters during a closed season and illegal hours, and from a polluted area and on other charges.
From Washington Times ● May 20, 2015
Their lavish spending in this closed season market, unparalleled to date among those expected to contend for the Premier League, is recognition of domestic inadequacy last time around.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2012
Riley, the never more than semi-Keeley-cured catcher, had last been heard of over Missoula way, and looking rather fit now that there was a more or less closed season on his favourite quarry—mauve mice.
From Down the Yellowstone by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
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