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inholding

inholding

8.9
A piece of private land that is inside a national park or forest
  • noun
  • /ˈɪnˌhoʊldɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : terreno privado
  • The small inholding is a cozy retreat within the larger national park.
  • private inholdings
  • inholding acre
  • purchase inholdings

Examples

  • The survey revealed that inholdings within the forest can create challenges for conservation efforts.

  • Certainly, scholars have conducted research on the hopes and expectations that residents of private inholdings have for the park's future (Rettie 1995; Dilsaver 2004).

    Academic text (2011)

  • Many landowners prefer to keep their inholdings in the midst of public nature reserves.

Synonyms

landholding
vsinholding
1 5.1

An area of land that someone owns, like a farm or property

is specifically a private plot located within public protected land boundaries

Antonyms

public property
14 2.8

Property owned by the government that people can use

Surface Forms

inholding singular
inholdings plural

Morphology

inholding = holding (semi-transparent) = in + hold + ing

If a learner knows 'holding' in the property sense, 'inholding' is understandable as a holding situated inside a larger area, but the specific public-land administrative meaning is specialized.

Etymology

The word inholding comes from the parts in- meaning 'inside' and holding meaning 'something someone owns'. So an inholding is a piece of private land that someone 'holds' inside public land, like a small property in the middle of a national park.