tract of farmland

collocation in English

meaningsoftractandfarmland

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tract
noun[C]
uk
/trækt/us
/trækt/
a short piece of writing, especially on a religious or political subject, that is intended to influence other ...
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farmland
noun[U]
uk
/ˈfɑːm.lænd/us
/ˈfɑːrm.lænd/
land that is used for or is suitable ...
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(Definition oftractandfarmlandfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftract of farmland

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In 1835, this house was constructed on what was then a largetractoffarmland.
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The immediate landscape by the roadside also includes the occasional smalltractoffarmlandat several points.
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This is not one of those schemes involving large tracts of farmland.
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Prominent and wealthy, his family possessed large tracts of farmland in the province and was into cattle-raising.
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His radical programme called for the nationalisation of large tracts of farmland as well as rapid government-directed industrialisation.
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The breach allowed floodwaters to claim dozens of homes and large tracts of farmland and put pressure on a secondary levee.
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Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep or swine.
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Between 1880 and 1940, large tracts of farmland and estates were subdivided and converted into private houses and apartments at a furious pace.
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Former tracts of farmland are reverting to cedar thickets, and there are a number of fields around the area as well, divided by well-maintained hedgerows.
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The house and garden plots were absorbed into larger tracts of farmland.
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These and other enhancements opened up vast tracts of farmland to new housing developments.
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This climate is ideal for growing farmed crops in the summer such as sweet corn and squash, leaving much of the outlying area marked with large tracts of farmland.
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