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Definition of
bread-and-butter adjective
from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
bread-and-butter
adjective
adjective
[
only before noun
]
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basic; very important
Employment and taxation are the bread-and-butter issues of politics.
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bread-and-butter
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