logging
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3.1
- noun
- /ˈlɔɡɪŋ/
- The government is regulating logging to protect endangered forests.
- illegal logging
- selective logging
- logging industry
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Watch on YouTubeWell, over the years that worked until the environmentalist stopped the logging and we no longer got that.
- Well, over the years that worked until the environmentalist stopped the logging and we no longer got that.
- And just more of that open area will just lead for more encroachment of maybe things like fire or logging or human encroachment.
Examples
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Eventually, the logging camp closed, and the land became the Vince Shute Wildlife Sanctuary.
Academic text (2011) -
The forests of Sarawak are currently being transformed by selective logging to supply world markets for tropical timber.
Academic text (1992) -
We got three weeks of the worst logging coming up.
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- Here in BC, and across North America, when they do industrial logging they actually take and just remove all the trees.
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My father knew all of that; his family lost a logging mill in the Depression.
Fiction book (1996) -
So, state budgets come from logging revenues.
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The bear ambles along an old logging road over a bridge, making his way to a small pond.
Academic text (2011) -
State governments have control over forests and the power to grant logging concessions.
Academic text (2011) -
We were measuring how the foxes were being displaced due to logging of native forest.
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They've lived in the rainforest since forever, but all their land is being destroyed because of logging.
Synonyms
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4.9
The business of cutting and selling wood
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4.8
Cutting and preparing trees to make wood for building
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2.8
Cutting down trees to get wood for fuel or building
Compounds
- Specialized
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4.1
To cut trees in a way that keeps the forest healthy for the future
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Etymology
The word logging comes from the simple word log, which meant a 'large piece of wood' or 'tree trunk'. So logging is the work of cutting trees into logs, which is why it means cutting down trees for timber.