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| home·stead [ hṓm stèd ] |
noun (plural home·steads) |
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1. house, outbuildings, and land: a house, especially a farmhouse, with its dependent buildings and land, considered as a whole
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2. history land claimed by settler: formerly, a piece of land occupied by a settler or squatter under the terms of the U.S. Homestead Act or the Canadian Dominion Lands Act
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3. commercial law residence exempt from forced sale: a house, adjoining land, and buildings declared as the owner's fixed residence and therefore exempt from seizure and forced sale for the recovery of debts
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intransitive verb (past and past participle home·stead·ed, present participle home·stead·ing, 3rd person present singular home·steads) |
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claim and work farmland: to settle and farm land, especially under the terms of the Homestead Act
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 home·stead·er noun |
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