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land grant

noun

  1. a tract of land given by the government, as for colleges or railroads.


land grant

noun

  1. a grant of public land to a college, railway, etc
  2. modifier designating a state university established with such a grant
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of land grant1

First recorded in 1850–55
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Example Sentences

The 1890 version of the act extended land grants to the former Confederate states but through direct cash payments.

The Morrill Act eventually changed all that, as several land-grant speakers at the Library of Congress emphasized.

What about human capital—public schools, land-grant colleges, student grants, and loans?

But one little-known fact about the Ithaca university is that it is, in part, a land-grant state institution.

My great-great-great-grandpaw fit under Washington and got a big land-grant out here and come out from Old Virginny.

These are all land-grant colleges with donations from the respective States in which they are located.

The legislature will not meet until next month, when they will likely give the land grant to the company.

He built up his stupendous business without a land grant or a protective tariff.

And a land grant in Java that will make you rich for life if you make those hill tribes stick to their plantations?

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