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  • verb To construct polders in order to drain land

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  • Upon requests, the head of state promised the residents and farmers that an excavator would be provided to empolder their land, mentioning that 350 residents of Mahaica, Mahaicony and the Pomeroon had already benefited.

    Stabroek News 2009

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