homesteading

[ hohm-sted-ing ]
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noun
  1. an act or instance of establishing a homestead.

  2. Also called homesteading program, urban homesteading. a federal program to improve deteriorating urban areas by offering abandoned or foreclosed houses to persons who agree to repair them and live in them for a specified number of years.

Origin of homesteading

1
First recorded in 1890–95, for earlier sense “homestead”; homestead + -ing1

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British Dictionary definitions for homesteading

homesteading

/ (ˈhəʊmˌstɛdɪŋ) /


noun(in Britain)
    • a scheme whereby council tenants are enabled to buy derelict property from the council and renovate it with the aid of Government grants

    • (as modifier): a homesteading scheme

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