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Meaning of "land grant" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LAND GRANT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LAND GRANT

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Land grant is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LAND GRANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Land grant

A land grant is a gift of real estate – land or its privileges – made by a government or other authority as a reward for services to an individual, especially in return for military service. Grants of land are also awarded to individuals and companies as incentives to develop unused land in relatively unpopulated countries; the process of awarding land grants is not limited to the countries named below.

Definition of land grant in the English dictionary

The definition of land grant in the dictionary is a grant of public land to a college, railway, etc. Other definition of land grant is designating a state university established with such a grant.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LAND GRANT

land agency
land agent
land army
land bank
land bridge
land crab
land forces
land girl
land grant college
land line
land mass
land mine
land of milk and honey
land of Nod
Land of the Midnight Sun
land office
land patent
land rail
land reform
land registry

WORDS THAT END LIKE LAND GRANT

block grant
capitation grant
development grant
emigrant
flagrant
fragrant
grant
illegal immigrant
immigrant
improvement grant
inmigrant
integrant
landed immigrant
maintenance grant
maternity grant
migrant
nonimmigrant
regrant
restaurant
student grant
vagrant

Synonyms and antonyms of land grant in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «land grant» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LAND GRANT

Find out the translation of land grant to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of land grant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «land grant» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

批地
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

concesión de la tierra
570 millions of speakers

English

land grant
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भूमि अनुदान
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

منح الأراضي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

грант земли
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

concessão de terras
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জমি অনুদান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

concession de terre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Geran tanah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Landbewilligung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

公有地の供与
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

토지 허가
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Griya tanah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cấp đất
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நில மானியம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जमीन अनुदान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Arazi hibesi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

concessione della terra
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dotacja ziemi
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

грант землі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

grant teren
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επιχορήγηση εδάφους
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

land toekenning
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

landlån
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

land grant
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of land grant

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LAND GRANT»

The term «land grant» is regularly used and occupies the 78.529 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LAND GRANT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about land grant

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QUOTES WITH «LAND GRANT»

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James Hall
We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LAND GRANT»

Discover the use of land grant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to land grant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Land Grant
Lawyer Alejandro Del Fuerte is torn between prosecuting a case involving a church-owned Spanish land grant and the wishes of his fiancâee, who is also his legal partner, as secret threats from veiled government and church sources seek to ...
Carlos Cisneros, 2012
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Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the ...
Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the US in 1948 battles over property rights have remained intense. This text shows how contending groups reinterpret the meaning of property to uphold their conflicting claims to land.
María E. Montoya, 2002
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Properties of Violence: Law and Land Grant Struggle in ...
DIVThrough the compelling story of the Tierra Amarilla conflict, David Correia examines how law and property, in general, and a Mexican-period land grant in northern New Mexico, in particular, have been constituted through violence and ...
David Correia, 2013
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Railroads and Land Grant Policy: A Study in Government ...
Mercer (economics, U. of California at Santa Barbara) assesses the economic efficiency of the land grant subsidies to the large U.S. railroad systems in the 19th century.
Lloyd J. Mercer, 1982
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Between Two Rivers: The Atrisco Land Grant in Albuquerque ...
Joseph P. Sánchez explores the evolution of this parcel over the four centuries since the first Spanish settlers arrived.
Joseph P. Sánchez, 2008
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Maxwell Land Grant: A New Mexico Item
This text focuses on the circumstances surrounding the Maxwell Land Grant in New Mexico and southern Colorado.
William Aloysius Keleher, 1964
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A Century of Service: Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, ...
A Century of Service is both a history and a celebration of these Land-Grant schools. The work also provides a presentation of views on how their original mission can best be adapted to the challenges of the future.
Ralph D. Christy, Lionel Williamson, 1992
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Maxwell Land Grant
This problem continued for decades until 1870 when Congress suddenly declined to act at all on any New Mexico grant claim including the 1841 Maxwell Land Grant which embraced almost two million acres.
William A. Keleher, 2008
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Justin Smith Morrill: Father of the Land-Grant Colleges
Here is the first biography on this renowned statesman in six decades. Representative and then senator from Vermont, Morrill began his tenure in Congress in 1855 and served continuously for forty-three years.
Coy F. Cross II, Coy F Cross, 2012
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Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant Universities:: ...
Public Service and Public Policy Committee on the Future of the Colleges of Agriculture in the Land Grant University System, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council. Intramural. Structural. Issues. The LGCAs in most university ...
Committee on the Future of the Colleges of Agriculture in the Land Grant University System, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council, 1996

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LAND GRANT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term land grant is used in the context of the following news items.
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Continued opposition to Wyden O&C Land Grant Act
The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee yesterday held a hearing on the Oregon and California Land Grant Act of 2015 (S. 132), ... «Oregon Catalyst, Jul 15»
2
Second Morrill Act Redux: America's 1890s Land Grant Universities …
The 1890 land-grant universities (LGUs) got off to a challenging start due to socio-economic and political difficulties. Despite that, these ... «NIFA, Jul 15»
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FAMU Receives Federal Land Grant For Research
FAMU Receives Federal Land Grant For Research. Story · Comments. Print: Create a hardcopy of this page; Font Size: Default font size: Larger ... «WTXL ABC 27, Jul 15»

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