soil bank
noun
a plan providing cash payments to farmers who cut production of certain surplus crops in favor of soil-enriching ones.
Origin of soil bank
1First 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
(in the US) a federal programme by which farmers are paid to divert land to soil-enriching crops
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