minimum tillage

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Also min·i·mum till, min·i·mum-till

[min-uh-muhm-til] /ˈmɪn ə məmˈtɪl/ .

Origin of minimum tillage

First recorded in 1975–80

Words nearby minimum tillage

minimum, minimum-access programming, minimum lending rate, minimum-security, minimum thermometer, minimum tillage, minimum wage, minimumweight, minimus, mining, mining bee

How to use minimum tillage in a sentence

He was treated like an immigrant, working for minimum wage, missing his family and having to move on from his musical career.
Cuban Hip-Hop Was Born in Alamar|Daniel Levin|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Remove the roast from the pan and let rest for a minimum of 15 minutes.
Make Carla Hall’s Roasted Pork Loin With Cranberries|Carla Hall|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A gifted marketer, he sent samples of the hat to merchandisers all over the West, asking for a minimum order of a dozen.
My Love Letter to the Stetson|Mark McKinnon|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To work at Rizzoli you had to be fluent in several languages: three was the minimum when I began.
The Bookstore That Bewitched Mick Jagger, John Lennon, and Greta Garbo|Felice Picano|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST

As a result, the inexperienced can find themselves earning well below minimum wage, or abused by underhanded employers.
Amazon’s Turkers Kick Off the First Crowdsourced Labor Guild|Kevin Zawacki|December 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The minimum wage law ought to form, in one fashion or another, a part of the code of every community.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
This can be done, as with the minimum wage, partly by positive legislation and partly collective action.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
That'll give us sixteen dollars and eighty cents for haulin' a minimum car of twenty-four thousand.
Scattergood Baines|Clarence Budington Kelland
It has as yet suffered no loss and is able to restrict its loss to a minimum by limiting the loan to a particular figure.
Third class in Indian railways|Mahatma Gandhi
It has been proved by hydraulic tests that good bricklayers' work can be executed at the latter minimum.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various