plot of land
collocation in Englishmeaningsofplotandland
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plot
noun[C]
uk/plɒt/us/plɑːt/
the story of a book, film, ...
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land
noun
uk/lænd/us/lænd/
the surface of the earth that is not covered ...
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(Definition ofplotandlandfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofplot of land
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Individual families did not have any claim to aplotoflandon the basis of previous use.
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They may have been passed on to the following generation, which continued to inhabit the sameplotofland.
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That is, the rights of a family to cultivate aplotoflandlast only as long as it is being used.
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Similarly, the notions of belonging, of the possession of aplotofland, were powerful concepts in these deeply uncertain times.
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Typically, however, farmers granted their laborers aplotoflandin lieu of cash wages.
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These rice plants can provide vegetative cover for fish habitat and thus rice and fish can be produced in the sameplotofland.
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Landlords, jotedars, tenant proprietors, sharecroppers and a host of other intermediaries all claimed a part of the produce of eachplotofland.
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Like the very poorest hosts, restricted to a singleplotoflandin the settlement, refugees are unable to do this.
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In this village, the city government built a power plant that occupied aplotofland.
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Cultivating aplotoflandrequired considerable time.
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Information about the possession or rent of aplotoflandby unskilled labourers was gathered from the municipal land registers.
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Later, when it burned, legal permission for its reconstruction was not given and a vacantplotoflandremained.
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It would mean that a family's right to a particularplotoflandwas limited to a cropping season, after which the right to the plot reverted to the community.
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Loaning aplotoflandto one's brother-in-law does not correspond to a right that the beneficiary would have over land, but to a non-obligatory transfer, a favour.
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Duala planters continued to give aplotoflandto their workers, where they could produce what they needed for subsistence.
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Aplotoflandin his constituency was required for a school in 1958, when the price was £769.
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Theplotoflandis 170 square yards.
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They have aplotofland.
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We can improve the actual use of land by treating eachplotoflandavailable as far too valuable a commodity to waste.
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