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单词 acre
释义
acre
noun[C]
uk
/ˈeɪ.kər/us
/ˈeɪ.kɚ/
C2
aunitformeasuringarea,equalto 4,047squaremetresor 4,840squareyards:
英亩（＝4047平方米或4840平方码）
He's got 400 acres oflandin Russia.他在俄罗斯拥有400英亩的土地。
More examples
  • Themansionis set in 90 acres ofbeautiful,unspoiltcountryside.
  • Thecollegeissurroundedby 70 acres ofparkland.
  • The ForestryCommissionisresponsibleforpreservingover 2 million acres ofwoodland.
  • Majorwildfireshavedestroyedthousands of acres in Idaho, Oregon and Montana.
  • Thefieldwas about ten acres insize.
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acreage
(Definition ofacrefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

acre| American Dictionary

acre
noun[C]
us
/ˈeɪ·kər/
aunitformeasuringarea,equalto 43,560squarefeetor 4047squaremeters:
Theyboughthalfan acre oflandtobuildtheirhouseon.

acreage

noun[U]us
/ˈeɪ·kər·ɪdʒ/
Forestcovershalfthe acreage.
(Definition ofacrefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

acre| Business English

acre
noun[C]
MEASURES
uk
/ˈeɪkər/us
aunitformeasuringarea,equalto 4840squareyardsor 4047squaremetres:
Thecompaniesall have more than 1,000 acresdesignatedforheavyindustry.
(Definition ofacrefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofacre

acre
The town would contain about 32,000 people and have a fairly high population density of 70-100 persons peracre.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The number of tenants with 1acreremains static (perhaps through data problems).
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Fully enclosed parishes tended to pay more peracrethan those which were as yet largely unenclosed.
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Almost everyacreof land has been utilized, rationally planned and arranged or frozen into a nature reserve.
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The coefficient estimates for the acres leased are also as expected.
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Between 1862 and 1872, the federal government spent millions of dollars and allotted over 100 million acres of land to railroad corporations.
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In addition, the relationship enabled potato producers to grow more acres of potato and use silage corn as a rotation crop.
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For many in the class with up to five acres, husbandry only supplemented an income primarily derived from industrial wages.
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They have also cultivated 15 acres of swampy rice.
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As a result, 555,000 owner farmer households were created and maintained during the period 1926 to 1945, involving 299,000 acres of land.
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Of these, perhaps 1,200 men controlled in excess of thirty acres.
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The net return peracre-inch of groundwater was higher for small and marginal farms compared with large farms.
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The area of commons enclosed in 1621 can be calculated at about 4,500 acres.
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On average, farmers clear 0.7 acres per year from closed cover forests.
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His first two rubber estates employed 3,000 workers and were 450 and 550 acres in size.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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Collocationswithacre

acre

These are words often used in combination withacre.

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acre of corn
They do not have anacreofcornor sugar beet.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
acre of farmland
I am not at all sure that it would extend to oneacreoffarmland.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
acre of grassland
The airfield proper—consisting of about 200 acres of grassland—is being offered back to its former owners.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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