单词 | homesteading |
释义 | homesteading /hohm"sted'ing/, n. 1. an act or instance of establishing a homestead. 2. 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. Also called homesteading program, urban homesteading. [1890-95, for earlier sense "homestead"; HOMESTEAD + -ING1] |
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