Definition of submarginal in English:
submarginal
adjective sʌbˈmɑːdʒɪn(ə)lˌsəbˈmärjənl
(of land) not allowing profitable farming or cultivation.
Example sentencesExamples
- Laborers, barred in large measure from the chance to work on speculatively held land, would either go to the city and become a class of urban poor, or move to hitherto submarginal plots of land and settle on them.
- The two bands became docile subsistence farmers on submarginal agricultural land.
- Through their skill, the country's marginal and submarginal pasturage has supported their huge herds of transient camels, sheep, goats, cattle, and horses for thousands of years.
- A Mill tax cannot cause supermarginal land to become submarginal, because marginal land pays no tax, while supermarginal land pays less than its full rental value in tax.
- Most of this land is classified as submarginal.