| 单词 | accommodation land |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaccommodation land accommodation land n. land adjoining a town or village that is let for cultivation or pasture, esp. of animals prior to slaughter. ΚΠ 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon iv. 102 Accommodation land, in the neighbourhood of trading, manufacturing, and market towns, not strictly applicable to the common purposes of farming, varies from 5l. to 8l. annual rent per acre. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Aug. 11/1 A ‘town park’ was accommodation land, by means of which in the wretched villages, misnamed towns, scattered throughout Ireland, the hucksters..eked out a miserable business by growing potatoes or feeding stock for early slaughter. 1907 L. Jebb Small Holdings of Eng. vi. 219 The average value of the land is about £50 per acre,..and even more for ‘accommodation’ land in the near neighbourhood of market towns and villages. 1995 R. Perren Agric. in Depression 62 Some of those in occupations allied to farming had small amounts of land... This could include butchers and livestock dealers with accommodation land, and village shopkeepers and publicans with a smallholding. < as lemmas |
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