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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024home•stead•ing (hōm′sted′ing),USA pronunciation n. - Governmentan act or instance of establishing a homestead.
- Governmenta federal program to improve deteriorating urban areas by offering abandoned or foreclosed houses to persons who agree to repair them and live in them for a specified number of years. Also called home′steading pro′gram, urban homesteading.
- homestead + -ing1 1890–95, for earlier sense "homestead''
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