land-poor
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of land-poor
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
Example Sentences
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The motive of President after President was to encourage settlement of the empty, rocky area, once regarded hungrily by land-poor Chile as a possible zone of expansion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Texas—immense, unorganized, full of cattle for which no profitable market could be found, cattle-rustlers, land-poor cow-barons and original sin.
From Time Magazine Archive
His father, a land-poor, dirt-poor migrant farmer, went as far north as Canada to harvest crops.
From Time Magazine Archive
To confess the truth, the Delurys had been so land-poor that their spare aristocratic figures were rather the result of necessity than inclination.
From Eleven Possible Cases by Franklin Fyles
In this he was correct, but in the mean time he was more or less land-poor.
From The True George Washington [10th Ed.] by Paul Leicester Ford
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