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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

Town′shend Acts′ [Amer. Hist.]

acts of the British Parliament in 1767, esp. the act that placed duties on tea, paper, lead, paint, etc., imported into the American colonies.

named after Charles Townshend (1725–67), English statesman, their sponsor

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