acreagen.
/ˈeɪk(ə)rɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈeɪk(ə)rɪdʒ/ 1. Extent or amount of acres; acres collectively or in the abstract. Also concrete: a tract or plot of land.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > an acre > amount in acres
acreagea1784
a1784 R. Bigland Hist. Coll. County of Gloucester (1792) II. ccxxx As the Acreage of the Parishes of Shipton, and Lower Hampen, and such part of Upper Hampen, as is not in Sevenhampton, and Compton Abdale Parishes is according to the County Rate returns 2585a.
1848 Blackwood Mag. 63 562 The entire acreage of Wales is nearly 5,206,690 acres.
1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. vii. vi. 235 Suitable lands yet to be brought under cultivation may add treble to the present acreage.
1871 S. Smiles Character ii. 62 The cultivable acreage of our country.
1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 31/2 The heavy freeze in the first part of January found much acreage poorly protected with snow. However, whether or not serious damage was done cannot be told until the grain begins to grow in the spring.
1950 J. A. Thompson European Market for Dry Edible Beans 39 Favas or broad beans occupy a little more acreage than..haricot beans... Fava production is large in Sicily and southern Italy.
1971 Iowa Rev. 2 115 The ball itself was out of sight far beyond the mowed grass of left-center field, way back in the high weeds of the neighboring acreage.
1998 Arable Farming (Nexis) 15 Oct. 12 It would be difficult to put an actual figure on its total acreage.
2006 A. Steffen et al. Worldchanging (2008) 500/1 For those with a bit more acreage to spare, the Nigerian Dwarf goat is an excellent source of sweet milk.
2. figurative and in extended use: territory, area; amount, extent, size.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > [noun]
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measurea1382
quantitya1387
muchnessa1398
sizea1400
largec1400
micklec1400
moisonc1400
of suingc1400
bignessc1475
assize1481
proportions1481
bodya1500
dimension1529
measuring1529
wideness1535
bind1551
corporance1570
magnitude1570
mickledom1596
amplitude1599
breadth1609
extendure1613
extension1614
extent1623
extensure1631
dimense1632
dimensity1655
bulkiness1674
bulksomeness1674
admeasurement1754
calliper1819
acreage1846
1846 Athenæum 11 Apr. 368/1 The author before us abounds in this sort of imputed strength. The acreage of his literary estate is now very considerable.
1894 Daily News 25 Apr. 5/1 What becomes of the vast acreage of history, genre, and still life annually put upon the market, with no bidders?
1910 J. Addams Twenty Years at Hull-House xii. 266 Kindliness..can be garnered most easily from the acreage where human beings grow the thickest.
1965 F. Warner Exper. Sonnets xiii. 19 What is the acreage of its despair.
1983 Listener 3 Feb. 21/1 They contain a large acreage of drug company advertising.
2007 Atlantic Monthly June 112/3 Bugliosi..spends a vast acreage of print debunking the fringiest and most lunatic theories, marshaling facts to prove that Kennedy's corpse wasn't altered.
Compounds
General attributive, as acreage rate.
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1834 Minutes Evid. Select Comm. Private Bill Fees 42 in Parl. Papers: Rep. from Committees VII Those were the two objects of the Bill, which was to receive effect by means of an acreage rate, to be imposed upon all the lands to be benefited.
1860 Times 4 Jan. 10/6 The tenantry paying a small acreage rate.
1899 Ann. Rep. Surgeon-Gen. Marine-Hosp. Service U.S. 1897 499 The water rental would not be materially increased, as an acreage rate of 6 cents per 1,000 gallons can be obtained where 2 acres or more are irrigated.
1998 Arable Farming (Nexis) 15 Oct. 12 Some of the contracting was charged on an hourly basis rather than an acreage rate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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