bread-and-butter issue

1. 1.

   an issue whose settlement will affect financial resources

   Synonymspocketbook issue

   Broaderissue

Questions about bread-and-butter issue

What does bread-and-butter issue mean?

bread-and-butter issue means "an issue whose settlement will affect financial resources".

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

Close synonyms include pocketbook issue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bread-and-butter issue a common word?

bread-and-butter issue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.