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Meaning of "land-poor" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LAND-POOR

land-poor play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LAND-POOR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Land-Poor is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES LAND-POOR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of land-poor in the English dictionary

The definition of land-poor in the dictionary is owning much unprofitable land and lacking the money to maintain its fertility or improve it.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LAND-POOR

land sailing
land tax
land up
land with
land worker
land yacht
land-damne
land-holder
land-holding
land-office business
land-poor farmer
land-wind
Land´s End
landamman
landammann
landau
landaulet
landaulette
landboard
landboarding

WORDS THAT END LIKE LAND-POOR

a foot in the door
dirt-poor
door
first floor
first-floor
floor
front door
ground floor
ground-floor
indoor
moor
next door
nonpoor
outdoor
overseer of the poor
piss-poor
poor
second floor
spoor
time-poor

Synonyms and antonyms of land-poor in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «land-poor» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LAND-POOR

Find out the translation of land-poor to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of land-poor 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-poor» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

地贫
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la tierra de los pobres
570 millions of speakers

English

land-poor
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भूमि गरीब
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الفقيرة الأراضي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

малоземельных
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

terra dos pobres
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জমি-দরিদ্র
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

terres pauvres
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Miskin tanah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

landarmen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

土地に乏しい
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

땅 이 부족한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lemah-miskin
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đất nghèo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நில-ஏழை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जमीन-गरीब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kara fakir
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

terreni poveri
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ubogich w ziemi
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

малоземельних
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

- teren sărac
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

γης των φτωχών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

land -arm
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

landfattiga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

land -fattige
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of land-poor

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LAND-POOR»

The term «land-poor» is used very little and occupies the 153.962 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LAND-POOR» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «land-poor» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «land-poor» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LAND-POOR»

Discover the use of land-poor in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to land-poor and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Land Poor and Six Shorter Stories
This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
Kate Speake Penney, 2013
2
Pro-poor Land Reform: A Critique
In other words, according to Tuma (1965: 251), land redistribution aims to create “ purposive change” that can result in the improvement of the situation of the landless and land-poor peasants and rural workers. Such purposive change or ...
Saturnino M. Borras, 2007
3
Agrarian Reforms, Land Markets, and Rural Poor
Even, access to small plot of land can prove to be extremely useful for land poor households, particularly female headed family (Agarwal, 1994). Hence there are very high reservation prices for land on small farms (Carter and Barham, 1996).
D. Narasimha Reddy, 2009
4
Land Reform in Developing Countries: Property Rights and ...
as a means to these two outcomes, raise big landowners' preference for selling land in small units, or to poor, landless, and/or small-farm households; raise the net land-demand curve (given quality) by land-poor households; given the net ...
Michael Lipton, 2009
5
The Emergence of Land Markets in Africa: "Impacts on ...
Concerning the effect of land purchase markets on equity between the rich and the poor (i.e., not simply the land-rich and land-poor), some studies find evidence that buyers of land are the wealthy and sellers are the poor (André and Platteau ...
Stein T Holden, Keijiro Otsuka, Frank M Place, 2012
6
National Differences, Global Similarities: World Culture and ...
Further, as we will show here, nations vary in how much resource inequality among schools their system produces; such educational inequality can have severe negative consequences for the school achievement of poor and Rich Land, Poor ...
David Baker, Gerald K. LeTendre, 2005
7
Congressional edition
Good land. Poor land. Land tolerable. Good land. Poor land. Would not give in their names. Do do Good land. Poor land. Poor land3 well timbered. Do Good land. Land poor. Good land- do. No. 1 FORM OF A RETURN— Continued. r"> CM to.
United States. Congress, 1835
8
Better Land Access for the Rural Poor: Lessons from ...
The creation of permanent rights for tenants and the outlawing of tenancy has caused landlords to fear losing their land, limited rental opportunities for land- poor households, and led to the under-utilisation of cultivable land and to pre- emptive ...
Lorenzo Cotula, Lorenzo Cotula Camilla Toulmin Julian Quan, Camilla Toulmin, 2006
9
Public charities: presented to both houses of Parliament by ...
School Town Field Land . Poor's Estate . . Church Land Ditto Rectory Dole Shudbolt . Johnson . Town Land The Spitals Town Lands Wells . . Doles Town, or Poor's Land Poor's Estate . . Church Estate Fowler .... Poor's Tenements Poor's Land .
Great Britain. Commissioners for Inquiring Concerning Charities, 1843
10
Digest of the reports made by the commissioners of inquiry ...
Marston Trussell 302 189 125 209 SI J Milton, otherwise ] Middleton, Malzorj Church Land Poor's Land . Perkins . Clark . . . Townsend Ragsdale . Lassells . Lady K. Leveson The Bidford Charity . Town Lands . Poor's Land . Syers Wykes .
Great Britain. Charity Commission, 1841

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LAND-POOR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term land-poor is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Lean times ahead for Australian cattle as Indonesia turns to …
Domestic production is focused on land-poor farmers with limited education keeping small numbers of cattle in makeshift housing. Rainforest ... «The Conversation AU, Jul 15»
2
The Pleasure Domes of Florida
No land-poor white folks. By the time the Breakers opened, the east coast of Florida had become far more fashionable than the west coast. «Oxford American, Jul 15»
3
Why Moby Wants You To Stop Showering
But in some parts of California, as much as 50 percent of the alfalfa that is grown is shipped overseas to land-poor countries like China. «ThinkProgress, Jun 15»
4
Forgotten Singapore: evicted islanders grieve for lost 'paradise'
From the 1960s, Singapore industrialised at a frenetic pace, and outlying territory in the land-poor nation was rezoned for the sake of efficiency. «South China Morning Post, May 15»
5
City leaders divided over paying for Cuba ferry
Land-poor Key West, where downtown space is particularly dear, lacks the basic infrastructure to welcome a ferry service to Cuba, city staff said ... «KeysNews.com, May 15»
6
THIS OLD TOWN: When coal miners owned West Mansfield
In 1835, during the roseate dawn of this old town's first coal rush, 25 land-poor but optimistic West Side farmers leased mining rights on their ... «Wicked Local Easton, May 15»
7
Gardening Matters empowers growers
Container gardens, which can easily fit on porches or even windowsills, are viable solutions for thousands of land-poor urban gardeners; the ... «thelinemedia.com, May 15»
8
The Garissa massacre shows us it's time to abandon the war on terror
Israel's off-loading of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers to Rwanda – an already overcrowded, land-poor and politically fragile country ... «Quartz, Apr 15»
9
Georgia to Curb Foreign Land Sales
They included land-poor farmers from Punjab in India and foreign companies keen to develop Georgia's ancient tradition of winemaking. «Institute for War and Peace Reporting, Mar 15»
10
The Great Land Giveaway in Mozambique
The investors are not mostly sovereign wealth funds from land-poor countries but investors from rich countries. Organization for Economic ... «Dollars & Sense, Mar 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Land-Poor [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/land-poor>. Apr 2024 ».
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