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homestead


2home·stead

verb \-ˌsted\

Definition of HOMESTEAD

transitive verb
: to acquire or occupy as a homestead
intransitive verb
: to acquire or settle on land under a homestead law
— home·stead·er \-ˌste-dər\ noun
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Examples of HOMESTEAD

  1. They homesteaded the territory in the 1860s.

First Known Use of HOMESTEAD

1872

Other Government and Politics Terms

agent provocateur, agitprop, autarky, cabal, egalitarianism, federalism, hegemony, plenipotentiary, popular sovereignty, socialism

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