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Definition of closer settlement in English: closer settlementnoun mass nounAustralian historical A government policy designed to establish productive agricultural communities by dividing large tracts of pastoral land into small plots for settlement. closer settlement relied on settlers practising forms of intensive agriculture Example sentencesExamples - Closer settlement was a new version of the recurrent dream that increased population was necessary, and a healthy, rural life desirable.
- The development of the Murray River area for closer settlement through irrigation is the subject of her 1937 book Water into Gold.
- As dairying expanded, it helped bring closer settlement to the district, which meant more than just the general store at the crossroads.
- With an increase in population and greater need for farming land, pressure mounted in Adelaide for closer settlement.
- A more scientific approach to farming was espoused, and irrigation schemes and closer settlement were championed.
- Closer settlement ended the more spacious ways of the Australian squatter.
- They grew wheat during this period of closer settlement and continued to do so successfully for another hundred years.
- He soon allied himself with those calling for tariff protection and closer settlement of the land.
- The great majority were drawn into closer settlements and new towns of various kinds.
- Closer settlement fitted the agrarian ideal of a happy yeomanry, a notion that gained popularity in the 1890s amid general disillusionment with urban life.
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