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Expanse of land
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acreage
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But Carlton sold off the last of his acreage to his brother-in-law last year. ▪ Despite corn acreage increasing by ten percent last year, nitrogen fertilizer sales dropped by more than ten percent. ▪ In all 34% of this acreage ...
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n. an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming); "he wanted some acreage to build on" [syn: land area ]
Usage examples of acreage.
They had seemingly endless space on the acreage, and Scott thought it would be fun, and profitable, to build a treehouse in a cluster of evergreens.
He had talked to Scott before about using his acreage to build low-cost homes for people in need.
He tried again and again to get Scott to talk about his idea for utilizing some of the Overhulse acreage to build clean but cheap housing.
Reginald turned off the public road on to the acreage that surrounded Cranford Hall.
It was possible that they had sufficient acreage of their own to offer to Stephens Industries.
Nobody realized how much acreage she owned within a twenty-mile radius of Magnolia.
The Slocum syndicate had just broken ground for a luxury development in the opposite direction on acreage safely within Magnolia city limits, Laura acknowledged.
Louisiana --and I am estimating this school acreage at but one thirty-sixth instead of one-eighteenth of the total acreage.
The valley wanted to get everything to market in one generation, indifferent to the fate of those who should come after-the passes through the mountains being choked by cars carrying to the coasts crops from increasing acreage of declining productivity or the products of swiftly disappearing forests or the output of mines that must soon be exhausted.
Of that great, tempering, benign shadow over the continent, tempering its heat, giving shelter from its cold, restraining the waters, there is left about 65 per cent in acreage and not more than one-half the merchantable timber--five hundred million acres gone in a century and a half.
At the top of the slow rise, the parcel became flat and I could see gently undulating acreage sweeping out in all directions.
WAS NEXT MORNING, about an hour before dawn, that I found myself, against my better judgment, riding escort for Miz Lewis as we headed off into the far western acreage of the Cottonwood ranch.
Constructed of heart cypress from trees felled in the swamp that was a part of the acreage, it was filled with all the furnishings that made life gracious as well as comfortable.
He had ridden out with her once in the first week, and seemed to take pride in showing her the acreage belonging to the plantation, the fields in cane and food crops, the lay of the lands along the river.
Tamson House always seemed far larger than their actual acreage should allow.