bread-and-butter issue

Questions about bread-and-butter issue

What is another word for bread-and-butter issue?

It depends which bread-and-butter issue you mean. In the sense “an issue whose settlement will affect financial resources”, the synonyms are pocketbook issue. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of bread-and-butter issue?

WordNet records no antonym for bread-and-butter issue. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for bread-and-butter issue come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of bread-and-butter issue

• Full entry for bread-and-butter issueAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for bread-and-butter issueWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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