homesteading

[hohm-sted-ing]

home·stead·ing

[hohm-sted-ing]
noun
1.
an act or instance of establishing a homestead.
2.
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.
Also called homesteading program, urban homesteading.


Origin:
1890–95, for earlier sense “homestead”; homestead + -ing1

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home·stead

[hohm-sted, -stid]
noun
1.
a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
2.
any dwelling with its land and buildings where a family makes its home.
3.
a tract of land acquired under the Homestead Act.
4.
a house in an urban area acquired under a homesteading program.
verb (used with object)
5.
to acquire or settle on (land) as a homestead: Pioneers homesteaded the valley.
verb (used without object)
6.
to acquire or settle on a homestead: They homesteaded many years ago.

Origin:
before 1000; Old English hāmstede (not found in ME). See home, stead
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homesteading (ˈhəʊmˌstɛdɪŋ)
 
n
a.  a scheme whereby council tenants are enabled to buy derelict property from the council and renovate it with the aid of Government grants
 b.  (as modifier): a homesteading scheme

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