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[ hohm -sted-ing ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈhoʊmˌstɛd ɪŋ / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun an act or instance of establishing a homestead.
Also called homesteading program, urban homesteading . a federal program to improve deteriorating urban areas by offering abandoned or foreclosed houses to persons who agree to repair them and live in them for a specified number of years.
Origin of homesteading 1890–95, for earlier sense “homestead”; homestead + -ing1
Words nearby homesteading home stand, homestay, homestead, Homestead Act, homesteader, homesteading , homestead law, home straight, homestretch, home study, homestyle
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Example sentences from the Web for homesteading And as cruel as the homesteading existence can be, city life is worse.
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Good; but your homesteading lumberman now watched his chance for a high wind away from his claim.
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Oddly enough, we had never questioned the impulse which led two young city girls to go alone into unsettled land, homesteading .
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Nothing strikes my fancy so much as homesteading —which I think you meant.
The Homesteader | Oscar Micheaux
And now they are homesteading , trying to get hold of land as fast as they can.
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I'll even try to tolerate that club-footed cowboy's brass in homesteading a ranch right under my nose.
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British Dictionary definitions for homesteading noun (in Britain) a scheme whereby council tenants are enabled to buy derelict property from the council and renovate it with the aid of Government grants (as modifier ) a homesteading scheme Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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