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homesteading
[ hohm-sted-ing ]
noun
- an act or instance of establishing a homestead.
- Also called homesteading program, a federal program to improve deteriorating urban areas by offering abandoned or foreclosed houses to persons who agree to repair them and live in them for a specified number of years.
homesteading
/ ˈhəʊmˌstɛdɪŋ /
noun
- a scheme whereby council tenants are enabled to buy derelict property from the council and renovate it with the aid of Government grants
- ( as modifier )
a homesteading scheme
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Origin of homesteading1
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Example Sentences
And as cruel as the homesteading existence can be, city life is worse.
If this urban homesteading operation is successful, more are almost certain to follow, giving occupation a whole new meaning.
And who epitomizes the homesteading patriarch better than John Wayne?
They are all Eastern women, all homesteading; but they never can save money enough to go back East.
I think now that I made a mistake and that neither of us ought ever to have attempted homesteading.
Or if the luxuries didn't catch his eye, would he be interested in the planetary homesteading gear?
I'll even try to tolerate that club-footed cowboy's brass in homesteading a ranch right under my nose.
Some of the girls we knew talked about "going homesteading" as a wild adventure.
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