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nouna tract of land given by the government, as for colleges or railroads. Origin of land grantFirst recorded in 1850–55 Words nearby land grantlandform, land freeze, land girl, land grab, land-grabber, land grant, land-grant college, landgrave, landgraviate, landgravine, landholder Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for land grantWhat about human capital—public schools, land-grant colleges, student grants, and loans? An Article That Made Me Sad, and a Little Response to Readers|Michael Tomasky|June 12, 2012|DAILY BEAST But one little-known fact about the Ithaca university is that it is, in part, a land-grant state institution. 20 Colleges Worth the Price|Kathleen Kingsbury|March 23, 2009|DAILY BEAST But you were deep in the land-grant lawsuits before you ever met Anne Clavering. Mrs. Darrell|Foxcroft Davis These are all land-grant colleges with donations from the respective States in which they are located. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920|Various
The price of all Government lands lying outside of the land-grant belts was $1.25 per acre. The Railroad Question|William Larrabee In its theory and its broad outline the land-grant policy is not hard to defend. Higher Education and Business Standards|Willard Eugene Hotchkiss The land-grant policy entailed corruption and waste, of course; but what mattered a few million acres of land! Higher Education and Business Standards|Willard Eugene Hotchkiss
British Dictionary definitions for land grant
nounUS and Canadian a grant of public land to a college, railway, etc (modifier) US designating a state university established with such a grant Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |