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homesteading

/hohm-sted-ing/US // ˈhoʊmˌstɛd ɪŋ //UK // (ˈhəʊmˌstɛdɪŋ) //

自耕农,自给自足,自耕自足,自耕自食

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or instance of establishing a homestead.
    • : Also called homesteading program, urban homesteading. a federal program to improve deteriorating urban areas by offering abandoned or foreclosed houses to persons who agree to repair them and live in them for a specified number of years.

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Examples

  • People hold live social events, buy digital plots, and create a homesteading approach.

  • Prices are expected to start in the mid-$500,000s, the builder said, which is beyond the reach of many on the homesteading waitlist.

  • The department also would have the right to purchase the home, and that property would be added to DHHL’s inventory of available homesteading lands.

  • Nevertheless, the casino measure underscores a growing realization within DHHL that the homesteading program’s problems are worse than previously thought — and far from being fixed.

  • Waihee said the state had little land on the island at the time that was fit for homesteading.

  • And as cruel as the homesteading existence can be, city life is worse.

  • If this urban homesteading operation is successful, more are almost certain to follow, giving occupation a whole new meaning.

  • And who epitomizes the homesteading patriarch better than John Wayne?

  • They are all Eastern women, all homesteading; but they never can save money enough to go back East.

  • I think now that I made a mistake and that neither of us ought ever to have attempted homesteading.

  • Or if the luxuries didn't catch his eye, would he be interested in the planetary homesteading gear?

  • I'll even try to tolerate that club-footed cowboy's brass in homesteading a ranch right under my nose.

  • Some of the girls we knew talked about "going homesteading" as a wild adventure.