free-select

British

verb

(tr) history to select (areas of crown land) and acquire the freehold by a series of annual payments

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Poor luck, however, or he wouldn't have come over to free-select on the Leura.

From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Mrs. Campbell Praed

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