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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as beetroot sugar, under beet-root.

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Examples

  • The beet-sugar industry took off during the Napoleonic Wars when France was cut off from Caribbean sugar.

    The Christmas Cookie Club Ann Pearlman 2009

  • The beet-sugar industry took off during the Napoleonic Wars when France was cut off from Caribbean sugar.

    The Christmas Cookie Club Ann Pearlman 2009

  • Her charges were the children of an agriculturist who ran a beet-sugar factory in a village 150 kilometers north of Warsaw.

    Curie, Marie Sklodowska 2009

  • The beet-sugar industry took off during the Napoleonic Wars when France was cut off from Caribbean sugar.

    The Christmas Cookie Club Ann Pearlman 2009

  • When it became clear that math and the physical sciences were her forte, she took chemistry lessons from a chemist in the beet-sugar factory.

    Curie, Marie Sklodowska 2009

  • Sugar-beet cultivation and beet-sugar industry developed primarily in France and Germany.

    d. Agricultural Production and Food Technology 2001

  • The Cuban prime minister once more addressed Martinez after discovering that he is director of a Chilean beet-sugar factory, and with a smile said:

    ADVICE TO VISITING CHILEAN GROUPS 1971

  • To listen to the beet-sugar and tobacco interests during the consideration of the Cuban treaty, one would think they would have been absolutely ruined if the treaty were ratified.

    Fifty Years of Public Service Shelby M. Cullom

  • The beet-sugar people asserted that it would ruin that industry, and that a reduction of twenty per cent on Cuban sugar would enable the Cubans to ship their sugar into the United States and undersell the beet sugar.

    Fifty Years of Public Service Shelby M. Cullom

  • The information given by the Secretary of the progress and prospects of the beet-sugar industry is full of interest.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

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