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Pottery Barn rules

Pottery Barn rules is the plural of Pottery Barn rule.

Meaning of Pottery Barn rule

Noun

Pottery Barn rule (plural Pottery Barn rules)

  1. A policy by which a retail store holds a customer responsible for damage done to merchandise on display.
  2. The principle that a country that invades or overthrows the government of another is responsible for stabilising and rebuilding that country.
    • Under these circumstances, the United States and its allies acted unjustly in invading Iraq. Does this set of circumstances give us any reason to think that the Pottery Barn rule now provides us with practical guidance?2014 April 24, Don E. Scheid, The Ethics of Armed Humanitarian Intervention, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 138

Questions about Pottery Barn rules

What is Pottery Barn rules the plural of?
Pottery Barn rules is the plural of Pottery Barn rule.

Words near Pottery Barn rules in the dictionary

  1. pottersfields
  2. Potterton
  3. Potterverse
  4. pottery
  5. Pottery Barn rule
  6. Pottery Barn rules
  7. Pottery Estate
  8. potterymaking
  9. potteryware
  10. potterywares
  11. Potthast

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