acreage
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4.0
- noun
- /ˈeɪkərɪdʒ/
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superficie
- The farmer expanded his operations by acquiring more acreage for growing crops.
- tobacco acreage
- farm acreage
- total acreage
I'd want farmland to go down so I could buy more acreage, you know, if I was.
- I'd want farmland to go down so I could buy more acreage, you know, if I was.
- And then territorial in the sense of acreage on which you can create a Jewish state.
- So you're talking about lots of acreage and hundreds of thousands of producers.
- Why would you need, you know, thousands of miles of empty acreage of desert in case you're plane crashes?
- So that's one of the sort of innovative things it's done in on broad acreage out West, but not very often here in New England.
- As far as your dad, I mean, he grew up in town and but they had a little acreage, they had some cows and his sister was a show horse.
- But Robert would we used to tell me in Afghanistan, they'd come across a an opium field and if it was a certain acreage, they'd leave it, right.
- And what we what we did as a group is we developed that acreage and built more apartments.
- You know, what went into the, the manufacturing and distribution of this, you know, what was the, the amount of like water and acreage and you know, all of that.
- It's a huge, huge acreage and a part of it is developed and there's all the, you know, tombstones and deceased people had passed, etcetera.
Examples
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The property is nothing but a lot of rocky acreage with a dilapidated farmhouse on it.
Fiction book (1998) -
The couple apparently acquired this acreage for their sons, who later migrated to Texas.
Academic text (2011) -
It's just some acreage I wanna develop.
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With all this acreage, we could put up a beautiful shopping center.
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You know, I have a forest garden on my acreage that I have in in northern Florida.
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The acreage that has been purchased was bought mostly on credit.
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Apparently he has an enormous inheritance, and his acreage is a wonder to behold.
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There is a list of the owners and acreage of land that was condemned for the highway's right-of-way.
Academic text (2012) -
"We went for a drive; he wanted to show me the acreage he's leased east of town."
Fiction book (1994) -
But success simply relies on accurate calculations, soil composition, weather, acreage, et cetera.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A part of a place used for a certain activity, like a park or room
∞
1.0
An area of ground used for farming, building, or as a country
∞
3.9
A piece of land with fixed boundaries for building
742
1.0
An area of open land used for farming or grazing
81
1.9
A small piece of land used to grow plants or vegetables
50
1.7
Land where people grow crops or raise animals
25
5.6
A large area of land not divided into smaller parts
25
4.9
A piece of land marked to sell or build on
23
1.8
A small area of land that someone owns or uses
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3.0
A small piece of ground for growing plants or building on
6
4.1
A large area of land used for a certain purpose
5
2.9
A piece of land sold or owned as one unit
5
2.7
A piece of land used for a specific purpose like building or farming
4
3.0
Land that is used to grow crops like grains or vegetables
1
2.9
Land prepared and used for growing crops like wheat or corn
1
5.1
An area of land that someone owns, like a farm or property
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Etymology
Acreage comes from acre, which means 'field' or 'piece of land', plus the ending -age that turns a word into an 'amount' or 'area'. So acreage is the amount of land measured in acres.