单词 | replotment |
释义 | replotmentn. rare before late 20th cent. The action or an act of dividing an area of land into plots again or differently. Cf. plot v.1 2c. ΚΠ 1701 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1838) II. 38 Who have gott Double Lotts by my Replotment of the City. 1974 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 34 143 The replotment of irregular small-sized paddy fields into a more efficient shape. 1991 S. Nagata in W. Peterson Adv. Input-output Anal. iii. x. 157 One purpose of land replotment projects was to increase land area. 2002 A. Sorensen Making of Urban Japan iv. 123 After revisions to the law in 1909, the emphasis shifted from farmland replotment to irrigation and drainage projects. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1701 |
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