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单词 conacre
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Definition of conacre in English:

conacre

noun ˈkɒneɪkə
mass noun
  • (in Ireland) the letting by a tenant of small portions of land prepared for crops or grazing.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The most common change is new land being rented or existing conacre agreements ending.
    • In addition, conacre or rented land that is no longer being farmed must be removed from the REPS plan.
    • The trade's effort to set a price of 82.50 per tonne for green barley will force many cereal growers out of business as up to 40% of the land being farmed is conacre.
    • Farmers had a cheap and abundant workforce, based on conacre, a form of bonded labour in return for small plots of potato land.
    • An annually changing proportion of pasture and arable land is leased out each year, usually for an eleven-month period, in a traditional system known as conacre.
    • In the case of conacre there is no requirement to take soil samples provided the planner specifies P limits at or below the target Index level.
    • Mr Parlon said many of these farmers opt to rent their land through the short-term eleven-month conacre system.
    • A national survey of letting prices last week showed a big demand for grazing compared to tillage conacre.
    • When costs such as bank interest rates and conacre are taken into account, many of these farmers will be left in the red with the banks.
    • On occasions he uses conacre to fulfil the requirements of the beet contract.

Origin

Early 19th century: from corn1 + acre.

 
 
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