land reform
any program, especially when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land among the landless.
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How to use land reform in a sentence
Somoza’s corruption and violence had alienated even Nicaragua’s business classes, and a broad popular front implemented a mixed economy promoting popular organization, land reform and the socialization of basic services.
The root cause of Central American migration? The United States. | Aviva Chomsky | July 8, 2021 | Washington PostIn the 1930s this was a “Soviet base” for the Communist Red Army, and one of the first places in China to complete “land reform.”
Land-reform in its earliest stages, like trade unionism in England, was accompanied by disorder.
Ireland and Poland | Thomas William Rollestonland reform has not yet advanced equally far, and will probably be reserved for the next burst of democratic energy.
Town Life in Australia | R. E. N. (Richard) TwopenyA sound land reform must—in this country at least—set its face in precisely the contrary direction.
Contemporary Socialism | John Rae
The Unionists were determined to defeat land reform, and absolute Ministerialist unity was necessary to frustrate their design.
The Annual Register 1914 | AnonymousThe new Kuomintang was more socialistic, as is shown by its admission of Communists and the stress laid upon land reform.
A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] | Wolfram Eberhard
British Dictionary definitions for land reform
the redistributing of large agricultural holdings among the landless
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