"metric martyr" meaning in All languages combined

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2002, New Statesman:",
          "text": "Did they hold out for their heritage of Ls. Cs and Vs? Did they have their numeral martyrs as we have our metric martyrs?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Monica Claes, The National Courts' Mandate in the European Constitution, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 238:",
          "text": "The directives were implemented in the United Kingdom by a series of subordinate instruments, amending among others the Weight and Measures Act 1985. The 'metric martyrs' had refused to use the new and continental measurements.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Michael Dobbs, A Sentimental Traitor, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He was charged, convicted, and given a criminal record. Other metric martyrs followed in his footsteps, dragged to the dock and made criminals for giving their customers what they wanted.",
          "type": "quote"
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      "glosses": [
        "A shopkeeper who is penalized for selling goods using the imperial system primarily or exclusively, in violation of the Weights and Measures Acts."
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          "penalize",
          "penalize"
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          "imperial system"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) A shopkeeper who is penalized for selling goods using the imperial system primarily or exclusively, in violation of the Weights and Measures Acts."
      ],
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        "UK"
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  "word": "metric martyr"
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    {
      "form": "metric martyrs",
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        "English lemmas",
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "2002, New Statesman:",
          "text": "Did they hold out for their heritage of Ls. Cs and Vs? Did they have their numeral martyrs as we have our metric martyrs?",
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        },
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          "ref": "2006, Monica Claes, The National Courts' Mandate in the European Constitution, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 238:",
          "text": "The directives were implemented in the United Kingdom by a series of subordinate instruments, amending among others the Weight and Measures Act 1985. The 'metric martyrs' had refused to use the new and continental measurements.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Michael Dobbs, A Sentimental Traitor, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He was charged, convicted, and given a criminal record. Other metric martyrs followed in his footsteps, dragged to the dock and made criminals for giving their customers what they wanted.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shopkeeper who is penalized for selling goods using the imperial system primarily or exclusively, in violation of the Weights and Measures Acts."
      ],
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        "(UK) A shopkeeper who is penalized for selling goods using the imperial system primarily or exclusively, in violation of the Weights and Measures Acts."
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  "word": "metric martyr"
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