Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Area of land measured in acres.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The number of acres in a piece or tract of land; acres taken collectively; extent in acres: as, the acreage of farm-land in a country; the acreage of wheat sown.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Acres collectively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Size, as measured in
acres . - noun An area of land measured in acres.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming)
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Examples
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Where we're drilling some of the other wells, we are capturing term acreage which is an objective on how we're allocating our capital.
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“My dredgers redeemed twice that acreage from the marshes in the past year,” Dick replied.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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Hopefully your acreage is not surrounded by skyscrapers - odds are it isn't.
What is the minimum amount of land someone should bow hunt on? 2009
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Hopefully your acreage is not surrounded by skyscrapers - odds are it isn't.
What is the minimum amount of land someone should bow hunt on? 2009
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Small as the acreage is this year, a poor summer and terrible storms reduced the yield.
HOPS AND HOPPERS 2010
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Then this could simply be a restatement of how much acreage is in each country X the amount they "protect".
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I do however think it should be limited to private property over a certain acreage to let us public still hunters have a shot.
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Nearly half of this management area's acreage is devoted to row crops, and the rest is dominated by bottomland hardwoods and open pasture.
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In this case, the total acreage is 156 or 150, depending again on your preference in acreage calculation.
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In this case, the total acreage is 156 or 150, depending again on your preference in acreage calculation.
faraway commented on the word acreage
Real estate advertisements in Australia use this term all the time, even though land here is measured in hectares. Granted, "hectareage" is a bit messy, but still, boo.
September 12, 2007
ruzuzu commented on the word acreage
See comments on ranchette.
August 10, 2015