cadastral
Americanadjective
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Surveying. (of a map or survey) showing or including boundaries, property lines, etc.
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of or relating to a cadastre.
Other Word Forms
- cadastrally adverb
Etymology
Origin of cadastral
From French, dating back to 1855–60; see origin at cadastre, -al 1
Example Sentences
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A good cadastral system makes the buying and selling of land, as well as the collection of taxes, easy.
From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2020
But the cadastral projects run by the World Bank frequently failed.
From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2020
How much grain could be grown on a piece of land we can gather from the official reports of the cadastral survey.
From Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
The cadastral survey for purposes of taxation went back to an early period of Babylonian history.
From Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
A cadastral survey was an institution which had long been in existence; it had been borrowed from Babylonia, where, as we have seen, it was already known at a very early epoch.
From Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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