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Main Entry:	community garden
Part of Speech:	n
Definition:	a piece of land cultivated by members of a community, esp. in an urban area
Example:	A community garden encourages an urban community’s food security, allowing citizens to grow their own food or donate what they have grown.
Etymology:	1899

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Main Entry:	community garden
Part of Speech:	n
Definition:	a piece of land gardened by a cooperative group of people living in the area
Example:	Most community gardens are open to the public and provide green space in urban areas, along with opportunities for social gatherings, beautification, education, and recreation.
Etymology:	by 1884

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Community garden is always a great word to know.

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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"I can think of many amusing parallels. For example, "the Borough of ... announces: Miss Jones, the splendid principal of our grammar school, has been offered the position of cook and housekeeper by the family next door, and so we feel obliged to dismiss her and make room for one of the young girls just graduated from training college. Miss Jones may not care to be a cook but since she has that privilege we don't think it right for her to continue to teach, valuable as her services are to the community." Or, "the Educational Committee of ... Borough has adopted a rule to employ no more men teachers who have vegetable gardens, and to notify those men now in its employ who possess vegetable gardens or are contemplating acquiring one that they will be dismissed. We are actuated by the following reasons: (1) The place of a man with a vegetable garden is at home working in his garden. (2) We feel, as a general rule, that a man with a vegetable garden will, to some extent, suffer in his efficiency as a teacher. We have no evidence of this; in fact the vegetable gardeners whom we are about to dismiss are among our best teachers, but nevertheless, we feel that as a general policy our rule is sound from an educational standpoint. (3) A man with a garden will not starve. Therefore, it is unfair to continue paying him a salary as a teacher while men who have no vegetable gardens are waiting for posts [ellipses in original]."

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