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: a tract of land acquired from U.S. public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating the tract
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Examples of homestead in a Sentence
They decided to farm the old homestead.
Recent Examples of homestead from the Web
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Weather permitting, there will be a 20-minute, guided hike around Banneker’s old homestead.
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Council had also previously given initial approval to increasing the real estate transfer tax to 4.278 percent and a higher homestead exemption of $40,000, which would be revenue neutral.
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All the action is set around a homestead in Nicodemus, Kan., a town founded by African-American settlers during the post-Civil War era of Reconstruction.
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Those residents could take the exemption along with a homestead exemption on their primary residence.
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Envisioned as a settlement of 10-acre homesteads, Chatsworth Park was born in 1888.
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Drought stamped out homesteads on the high plateau.
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In those neighborhoods, owners who don't have homestead exemptions won't be able to renew licenses or seek new ones -- effectively an all-out ban.
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This fall, Florida voters will be asked whether to approve another homestead exemption that will affect the amount of local taxes collected.
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First Known Use of homestead
before 12th century
Other Government and Politics Terms
: to acquire or settle on land under a homestead law
Examples of homestead in a Sentence
They homesteaded the territory in the 1860s.
Recent Examples of homestead from the Web
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His wife's family homesteaded in Willow in the 1950s.
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Their son, Roy, homesteaded there with his own family.
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With rents ever higher in Chelsea’s old garages and the Lower East Side’s tenements, nearly a dozen homesteading dealers have moved to a few blocks of terra nullius hemmed in by SoHo, TriBeCa and the Civic Center.
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The center of the community’ The 23-acre site, known as The Hill, was part of a 160-acre first homesteaded in 1891, Angus Hill and his descendants raised sheep there.
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Meekins, 32, is the grandson of Russ Meekins Sr., a member of the first Alaska Legislature who homesteaded with his wife Adele in what is now Mountain View.
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Tempering the haute with the homesteaded, the opulent with the bracingly simple, Beran and his crew rejigger expectations of what a tasting menu can be.
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His great-great-grandfather migrated from Finland in the 1890s and homesteaded on a 474-acre lake.
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His parents homesteaded and lived on a ranch raising animals, miles away from any town and living through the depression.
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First Known Use of homestead
1867
Other Government and Politics Terms
HOMESTEAD Defined for English Language Learners
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: a house and the farmland it is on
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: a piece of government land that a person could acquire by living on it and farming it when the western part of the U.S. was being settled
HOMESTEAD Defined for Kids
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: a home and the land around it
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: a piece of land gained from United States public lands by living on and farming it
homesteaded;
homesteading
: to acquire or settle on public land for use as a homestead
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homesteader
\ˈhōm-ˌste-dər\ nounLaw Dictionary
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: the home and adjoining land with any buildings that is occupied usually by a family as its principal residence
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: an estate created by law in a homestead especially for the purpose of taking advantage of a homestead exemption
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: a tract of land acquired from U.S. public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating the tract
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