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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
agrarian
adjective
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■ NOUN
economy
▪ Of course, in a predominantly agrarian economy land constituted by far the most important capital asset.
▪ It would nevertheless be a mistake to regard the agrarian economy of Savoy as completely static and unmoving.
▪ A stable and balanced agrarian economy had degenerated into precarious monocultures and backwater towns.
reform
▪ Other studies have showed that profiting from agrarian reform can be combined with a more radical political commitment.
▪ Those changes were further propelled by agrarian reform laws in the 1960s and 1970s.
▪ A rapid acceleration took place in the implementation of the agrarian reform.
▪ The difficulty with many agrarian reform programmes has been achieving both social justice and economic growth.
▪ But the rebels introduced an equitable tax system and an agrarian reform program, distributing land to poor villagers.
▪ The simple proposition behind all agrarian reform was that surplus land should be distributed to surplus labour.
▪ It is in their attitude to agrarian reform that the premisses of liberalism emerge most clearly.
society
▪ In the more traditional agrarian societies these mobile constructors formed an important bridge between rural and industrial life.
▪ Navarre was a conservative, stable agrarian society in which Catholic Credit societies flourished in the late nineteenth century.
▪ The old values which had underpinned Britain when it was an agrarian society were threatened by a new urban poor.
▪ Once a feudal, agrarian society, the island has recently been urbanised, industrialised and Americanised.
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▪ A rapid acceleration took place in the implementation of the agrarian reform.
▪ By the 1870s sufficient of world agriculture was in the second position to make agrarian depression both world-wide and politically explosive.
▪ During the suppression of the agrarian unrest of 1830 he attempted, unsuccessfully, to improve the wages of labourers around Dorchester.
▪ In the more traditional agrarian societies these mobile constructors formed an important bridge between rural and industrial life.
▪ The simple proposition behind all agrarian reform was that surplus land should be distributed to surplus labour.
▪ To me these faces have the appearance of contentment, agrarian in origin.
▪ Yet if one compares these two essentially agrarian communities in temporal terms, the situation is reversed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Agrarian

Agrarian \A*gra"ri*an\, n.

  1. One in favor of an equal division of landed property.

  2. An agrarian law. [R.]

    An equal agrarian is perpetual law.
    --Harrington.

Agrarian

Agrarian \A*gra"ri*an\, a. [L. agrarius, fr. ager field.]

  1. Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens.

    His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment.
    --Burke.

  2. (Bot.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
agrarian

1610s, "relating to the land," from Middle French loy agrarienne "agrarian law," corresponding to Latin Lex agraria, the Roman law for the division of conquered lands, from agrarius "of the land," from ager (genitive agri) "a field," from PIE *agro- (cognates: Greek agros "field," Gothic akrs, Old English æcer "field;" see acre). Meaning "having to do with cultivated land" first recorded 1792.

Wiktionary
agrarian

a. 1 Of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land 2 agricultural or rural. 3 (context botany English) wild; said of plants growing in a cultivated field n. A person who advocates the political interests of working farmers

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agrarian

adj. relating to rural matters; "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities" [syn: agricultural, farming(a)]

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Agrarian

Agrarian means pertaining to agriculture, farmland, or rural areas.

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Usage examples of "agrarian".

Then, for the first time, the Agrarian law was proposed, which even down to our own recollection was never agitated without the greatest commotions in the state.

The dissuader and opposer of the agrarian law now began to be popular.

Cassius, because in the agrarian donation he sought popularity among the allies, and was therefore lowered in the estimation of his countrymen, in order that by another donation he might conciliate their affections, ordered that the money received for the Sicilian corn should be refunded to the people.

In that year also the minds of the people were excited by the charms of the agrarian law.

Licinius, a tribune of the people, thinking that the time was come for forcing the agrarian law on the patricians by extreme necessity, had taken on him the task of obstructing the military preparations.

Genucius, the proposers of the agrarian law, appoint a day of trial for T.

Disturbance at home immediately succeeds to peace abroad: the commons were goaded by the tribunes with the excitement of the agrarian law.

The commons appeared determined no longer to brook a delay of the agrarian law, and extreme violence was on the eve of being resorted to, when it was ascertained from the burning of the country-houses and the flight of the peasants that the Volscians were at hand: this circumstance checked the sedition that was now ripe and almost breaking out.

Accordingly in his second consulate also both the abettors of the agrarian law had raised themselves to the hope of carrying the measure, and the tribunes, supposing that a matter frequently attempted in opposition to both consuls might be obtained with the assistance at least of one consul, take it up, and the consul remained stedfast in his sentiments.

When relinquished, the tribunes take it up, and other seditious schemes are continually started, among which is that of the agrarian law.

Lavici being taken, and subsequently Agrippa Menenius Lanatus, and Lucius Servilius Structus, and Publius Lucretius Tricipitinus, all these a second time, and Spurius Rutilius Crassus being military tribunes with consular authority, and on the following year Aulus Sempronius Atratinus a third time, and Marcus Papirius Mugillanus and Spurius Nautius Rutilus both a second time, affairs abroad were peaceable for two years, but at home there was dissension from the agrarian laws.

The victorious tribunes, in order that the people might reap an immediate benefit from the trial, publish a form of an agrarian law, and prevent the tax from being contributed, since there was need of pay for so great a number of troops, and the enterprises of the service were conducted with success in such a manner, that in none of the wars did they reach the consummation of their hope.

This is noticed as the first trace of the Agrarian division by Niebuhr, i.

It is extraordinary that Livy makes no mention here of Siccius Dentatus, and his strenuous exertions in endeavouring to carry the agrarian law, as well as of his angry contentions with the consuls.

By then, the agrarian conditions that had motivated the Huk Rebellion in the 1940s and 1950s had worsened throughout much of the nation.