| 单词 | allotment system |
| 释义 | > as lemmasallotment system allotment system n. (a) originally British a system under which land is rented out to individuals for growing vegetables or flowers or for keeping small livestock (see sense 2b); (b) U.S. (now historical) a system of dividing communally-held North American Indian tribal lands (see sense 2c). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > enclosed land or field > field systems allotment system1801 field system1811 1801 Ann. Agric. 37 47 I shall only add a caution against indulging expectations which the allotment system is not calculated to answer. 1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 90 The allotment system, when limited to the giving a labourer a small plot of garden-ground, presents many advantages. 1886 J. Cook Vital Orthodoxy 186 The Senate promptly negatived a motion to strike out a clause in Senator Dawes's bill, which gives the Indians who take land under the allotment system..the privileges of citizenship. 1939 Times 23 Dec. 4/ The allotment system arose out of the fact that so few houses in the more densely populated areas had garden space. 1997 N. S. Momaday Man made of Words i. 70 In a two-year period following the inception of the allotment system, Indian lands were reduced by twenty million acres. 2009 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 May There are ever-longer waiting lists for community plots on both sides of the pond, but England's allotment system has stronger and deeper cultural roots, thanks to long-standing government support. < as lemmas |
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