American system
noun
: the policy of promoting industry in the U.S. by adoption of a high protective tariff and of developing internal improvements by the federal government (as advocated by Henry Clay from 1816 to 1828)
Word History
First Known Use
1830, in the meaning defined above
- full-dress uniform
- full-dressed
- full-fashioned
- full-fat
- full-feathering
- full-feed
- full-figured
- full-fledged
- full-form insurance
- full-grooved ax
- full-grown
- full-jacket
- full-jacketed
- full-length
- full-moon maple
- full-motion video
- full-on
- full-orbed
- full-out
- full-paid
- full-patch
- full-pitch winding
- full-rigged
- full-rigger
- full-scale