Staple
a staple, a staple food, a staple good (noun) - important and basic goods used in everyday life, mostly food also consumer goods (rice, cooking oil, soap, shampoo), also means more generally, something basic and essential
rice, an Asian staple
staple food crops
a staple food
retail prices of staple foods and consumer goods
workers whose diet depended on imported staple foods (especially cheap grain)
sand eels, the birds' staple food
our staple diet
syrup tarts became out unhealthy staple diet
we depend on others for our staple diet
pork, the staple diet of most Europeans for many centuries
worms are a staple diet for birds
consumer staples
staple goods
the government froze the prices of 14 staple goods
the national staple
grain merchants doubled the price of maize meal, the national staple
as societies become richer, for consumers to spend proportionately less of any increase in their income on staple foods
an old staple industry
rubber became the staple of the Malayan economy
makers of consumer staples
staple rations
our staple rations of corn, molasses, buttermilk and a few seasonal vegetables at the Soviet prison camp
Snippets from speeches formed the staple of reporting
a staple feature of Soviet bureaucracy is overlapping responsibility
consider a staple example...
staple industries changed and the whole industrial and commercial structure grew
Example sentences:
* Their staple food crops are maize, sorghum and wheat.
* The price of rice, an Asian staple expected to become more important also in Africa in the years ahead, would likely average 30 percent more expensive in nominal terms in the coming decade than over the 1998-2007 period.
* Large chains, such as McDonald's and Beefeater, spend thousands of pounds on research into frying technology and on the best ways of cooking their staple menu item, French fries.
* Pork was the staple diet of most Europeans for many centuries and it was said that the peasants of Britain lived on bread, bacon and beer.
* Worms are a staple diet and these have been in short supply due to the summer drought.
* The kinds of companies that prosper under stagflation are companies with "low debt, pricing power, captive buyers, control of input prices, are makers of consumer staples or are in sin stocks."
* Engel was a prussian statistician who in the early nineteenth century pointed to the tendency, as societies become richer, for consumers to spend proportionately less of any increase in their income on staple foods.
* Crops appeared where they had not grown before: rubber was carried from Brazil to become the staple of the Malayan economy, and soon to be very important in Indonesia and Ceylon.
* The only dish she made that we could tolerate was syrup tart, which we praised extravagantly, with the result that it became our unhealthy staple diet.
* Given cheaper, tougher cuts of meat and staple rations of corn, molasses, buttermilk and a few seasonal vegetables, they showed great inventiveness and creativity with these limited ingredients.
* Retail prices of staple foods and consumer goods remained unchanged.
* At the end of January the government froze the prices of 14 staple goods, in a measure which Dimitrov described as anti-market but necessary for social reasons.
* Grain merchants doubled the price of maize meal, the national staple, at the beginning of June; the second major price increase since February, it drew criticism from the Minister of Agriculture.
* There had long been some specialists, like vine-dressers or fishermen or cowherds or shepherds, who were producing food, but depended on others for their staple diet.
* In the simplest version of this concept the UK imported raw materials which, together with indigenous materials (especially coal and iron), were transformed by British workers whose diet depended on imported staple foods (especially cheap grain) and who produced high quality and low cost manufactured goods which were sold abroad to pay, in part, for the primary imports.
* The kind of entrepreneur required in a new and expanding industry is likely to be somewhat different from the one required to handle the contraction and reorganisation of an old staple industry.
* According to election analyst David Butler: "Snippets from speeches formed the staple of reporting, even in the tabloids."
* A staple feature of Soviet bureaucracy is overlapping responsibility (particularly at intermediate levels): in part a natural consequence of size and complexity, in part a way of ensuring consultation and coordination; it is also the Party's tried and trusted technique of divide and rule.
* For illustration, consider a staple example in thought about causation, that of a house fire, caused by a short circuit.
* Set in places where many things happen, these films followed multiple story lines in a way that clearly anticipates a later staple of TV drama programming.
* With the growth of towns, the coming of the Industrial Revolution, and the improvements in surface transportation, the pattern in all but the staple industries changed and the whole industrial and commercial structure grew (and grows) increasingly more diverse and complex, to the extent that it moves ever more out of the realms of the local researcher into those of the economic or social historian working at national, or even international, level.
* This would allow high-octane petrol to remain the staple of British garage forecourts.
* It was a staple of the revenge tragedy as Kyd, Tourneur or Shakespeare conceived it, and plays by Dekker, Lyly, Webster, Ford and Middleton all made use of madness on stage, and of actors specially trained for the parts of madmen.
* Other sections of the press, for example the Sunday newspapers, had always shown less interest in politics and devoted considerably less space to the staple diet of the ideal fourth estate newspaper.
* Not all teachers today use a single standard textbook as their staple material and many schools have difficulty affording class sets.
* Historical content remains the principal staple of their diet.
* A recently-introduced ban on the fishing of sand eels, the birds' staple food, has been credited with the success.
* Horace took a long view of excellence; a very rough idea of his aesthetic commitment to the tradition of Greek letters, and some understanding of the initially cool (or possibly baffled) public reception of his Greek-inspired Odes, might be gained if we were to try to imagine one of our own Augustans studiously engaged, while everyone else relied on the staple measure of the heroic couplet, in the production of poems imitating the intricate court metres of the Nordic skald, such as the Drottkvaett, or the Dunhenda.
* But apart from racing, rugby and golf fans businessmen are Orient Air's staple.
* Badgers are also suffering from malnutrition because their staple diet, the thirsty earthworm has been forced too far underground for them to reach.
* As the film director Montgomerie, whose staple shot is, of course, the fade, settled into his address, it was clear that his intention was to flight the ball right to left.
* Pound has no recourse to that staple of anti-Russian propaganda in every generation (some of it was being aired in these years in Eliot's Criterion ) according to which the Russian is Asiatic outside the confines of Europe.
* This is again a borrowing, from Tennyson, another staple of a cultural tradition.
* Staple features of the church plan since early Christian times have been the cruciform shape and the division of the interior into a high central nave, flanked on either side by lower aisles.
