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slash and burn

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slash-and-burn

[slash-uhn-burn]
–adjective
of a method of agriculture used in the tropics, in which forest vegetation is felled and burned, the land is cropped for a few years, then the forest is allowed to reinvade.

Origin:
1935–40
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