land agent
noun
a person or firm engaged at a commission to obtain grants of public lands or to negotiate the buying and selling of private lands between two or more parties.
land agency
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a word derived from
land agent.
Example Sentences
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She trained as an opera singer at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and worked in land agency before setting up an interior design business at the age of 25.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2022
The land agency also on Tuesday issued a call to nominate land for development within “solar energy zones” in Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico that combined cover about 140 square miles.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 21, 2021
A law passed in 2017 called for at least two lease sales within the coastal plain, with the first before Dec. 22, 2021, and the second before Dec. 22, 2024, the land agency has said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
Richard Packer, a spokesperson for the federal land agency, did not answer questions from The Associated Press or provide additional details on the agency’s plans, referring instead to an agency press release.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
Henderson, having established a land agency at Boonsborough, at once proceeded to deed to the Transylvania colonists entry certificates of surveys of many hundred thousand acres.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Theodore Roosevelt
