soil bank


noun
  1. a plan providing cash payments to farmers who cut production of certain surplus crops in favor of soil-enriching ones.

Origin of soil bank

1
First recorded in 1950–55

Other words from soil bank

  • soil-bank, adjective

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How to use soil bank in a sentence

  • It was to be a kind of soil bank, though without the subsidy.

    Give Me Liberty | Thomas J. Wertenbaker

British Dictionary definitions for soil bank

soil bank

noun
  1. (in the US) a federal programme by which farmers are paid to divert land to soil-enriching crops

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