Tea Act

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noun American History.

an act of the British Parliament (1773) that created a monopoly unfair to American tea merchants: the chief cause of the Boston Tea Party.

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How to use Tea Act in a sentence

A spokesman for Lewisham council said last year that it would be forced to act if the family returned to Britain.
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Every once in a while, they act swiftly and acknowledge the problem.
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The smell of grilled meat mixes with the exotic wafts of cinnamon tea served with a mush of sweet brown dessert.
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That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.
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He caught himself in the act of listening to you too credulously—and that seemed to him unmanly and dishonorable.
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Being quieted by the Captain with a draught of cold tea, and made to sit down, the examination of the book proceeded.
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He was aware that his act by this time, had helped nobody, had made no one happy or satisfied—not even himself.
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He had, however, recovered sufficiently to enable him to act with promptitude and discretion.
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Afterwards we saw you once or twice at tea at the Ritz, and you took off your hat, so you must have remembered then.
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