Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Owning much unprofitable land but lacking the capital to improve or maintain it.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Poor or in need of ready money while owning or holding much unremunerative land; especially, poor because of the taxes and other maintenance charges against such land.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective colloq. Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative form of
land poor .
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Examples
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Seattle is an especially attractive place for brownfield redevelopment for a number of reasons, including that the land-poor Northwestern port city needs to reclaim abandoned properties to grow, said Mr. Williams, whose firm is also redeveloping brownfields in Denver and Parchment, Mich.
Brownfields Bloom in Seattle Jim Carlton 2011
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"As everyone knows, by the time Gerau de Pallars inherited his estate, the family was land-poor," said Ramon.
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"As everyone knows, by the time Gerau de Pallars inherited his estate, the family was land-poor," said Ramon.
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The redistribution of land mainly owned by white commercial farmers to the land-poor black majority has sparked an
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They were land-poor in this part of the West, owners of thousands of square-mile tracts of land along their right-of-way, deeded to them by the U.S. government for laying track.
Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983
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They were land-poor in this part of the West, owners of thousands of square-mile tracts of land along their right-of-way, deeded to them by the U.S. government for laying track.
Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983
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They were land-poor in this part of the West, owners of thousands of square-mile tracts of land along their right-of-way, deeded to them by the U.S. government for laying track.
Mistletoe and Holly Janet Dailey 1982
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They were land-poor in this part of the West, owners of thousands of square-mile tracts of land along their right-of-way, deeded to them by the U.S. government for laying track.
Mistletoe and Holly Janet Dailey 1982
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They were land-poor in this part of the West, owners of thousands of square-mile tracts of land along their right-of-way, deeded to them by the U.S. government for laying track.
Mistletoe and Holly Janet Dailey 1982
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They were land-poor in this part of the West, owners of thousands of square-mile tracts of land along their right-of-way, deeded to them by the U.S. government for laying track.
Mistletoe and Holly Janet Dailey 1982
qms commented on the word land-poor
Impoverished, young and a bland boor
The squireen is well-housed but land-poor.
To attract a rich wife
And be set up for life
His campaign begins with a grand tour.
September 8, 2014