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butter | American Dictionary

butter
noun[ U ]
us/ˈbʌt̬·ər/
a pale yellow, fatty solid made from cream that is spread on bread or used in cooking

Examples of butter

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Top dealers are inviting big clients into their offices, buttering them up with expense account lunches, putting them into new ways of investment, just as a good stockbroker might.
The farmers received a good price even though there was too much butter for the market.
He hopes that his butter and honeycups will prove a big success in the next few years.
To give themselves solid centres publishers seek niche markets, either regional or professional, which will provide them with reasonably certain bread and butter.
The result was that by the middle of 1990, both companies were finding sales of their established" bread-and-butter" linguistic product lines seriously eroded.
Worldly people speak soft words like butter and those who have not wisdom to discern what they are after are deceived and fall.
Next, whether the proposition is a fact or not is explicitly represented ("it is a fact that this word has the meaning butter").
Lists, higher order functions, user-defined data types, and tree structures fill out the remaining bread and butter chapters.
Simple cases, in which a moral agent meets a need, are the bread and butter of everyday moral practice.
The guy starts saying - he looks at the butter.
The bread and butter of the book trade was traditionally the sale of school textbooks through small shops and in the marketplace.
Consumption of butter per week in 1965 was 173g but only 39g in 2003.
The masses of all packs of butter may be assumed to have a normal distribution with mean grams and standard deviation 2.7 grams.
Two would-be polytechnics unwittingly supplied a gauge- syllabi softer than butter, one in business studies and one technological.
A trifle in a glass bowl, neatly cut bread already buttered, and of course, that most essential for all significant occasions, the red salmon.
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