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homesteading program

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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 + -ing 1
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