| 单词 | prairie value |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprairie value prairie value n. now chiefly historical (originally in the context of land reforms in Ireland in the late 19th cent.) the rental value of prairie land, or of any (formerly) uncultivated land, based on the value of the land in its original state (cf. prairie rent n.); also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > value of land or property rack-rental1781 site value1865 land-value1880 prairie value1881 prairie rent1882 plottage1910 1881 J. Bright Speech 9 May in Hansard (1881) CCLXI. 105 If all that the tenants have done were swept off the soil, and all that the landlords have done were left upon it, the land..would be as bare as an American prairie where the Indian now roams and where the White man has never trod.] 1881 Times 24 Sept. 11/5 Mr. Alfred Webb, an ardent sympathizer with the national cause, states that he felt constrained to write a letter protesting against the dictum propounded at the late convention, that the landlords should be paid for their land at the prairie value. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 825 Refusing to go beyond the bare etymology—‘the prairie value’—of the name. 1910 F. H. O'Connell Hist. Irish Parl. Party I. vi. 147 Mr. Butt's Bill was regretfully remembered by owners menaced with the theories of the prairie value school of agrarian politicians. 1969 Jrnl. Brit. Stud. 9 112 Spencer argues that even if the ‘prairie value’ of virgin soil belongs by right to the community, government has no practical way of calculating and exacting the value from proprietors because it is inextricably mixed into present real estate prices. < as lemmas |
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