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land grant
noun
- a tract of land given by the government, as for colleges or railroads.
land grant
noun
- a grant of public land to a college, railway, etc
- modifier designating a state university established with such a grant
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Word History and Origins
Origin of land grant1
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The Morrill Act eventually changed all that, as several land-grant speakers at the Library of Congress emphasized.
What about human capital—public schools, land-grant colleges, student grants, and loans?
But one little-known fact about the Ithaca university is that it is, in part, a land-grant state institution.
My great-great-great-grandpaw fit under Washington and got a big land-grant out here and come out from Old Virginny.
These are all land-grant colleges with donations from the respective States in which they are located.
The legislature will not meet until next month, when they will likely give the land grant to the company.
He built up his stupendous business without a land grant or a protective tariff.
And a land grant in Java that will make you rich for life if you make those hill tribes stick to their plantations?
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