shifting cultivation

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noun

a land-use system, esp in tropical Africa, in which a tract of land is cultivated until its fertility diminishes, when it is abandoned until this is restored naturally

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Words nearby shifting cultivation

shift, shiftable, shift bid, shifter, shift for oneself, shifting cultivation, shifting spanner, shift key, shiftless, shift lever, shift lock

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How to use shifting cultivation in a sentence

The Babadook is the shape of grief: all-enveloping, shape-shifting, black, here intensely, terrifying, then gone.
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In the past, Santos has been stubbornly opposed to a bilateral ceasefire, but his position on the issue may be shifting.
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The lack of legal clarity is only one piece of an already frenzied and shifting operating environment.
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The political impact of shifting demographics is a hot topic.
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The sudden shifting of light and shadow in Palmer's life was never more apparent than on the morning of the last game of 1982.
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Hamo in alluding to the early cultivation of tobacco by the colony, says, that John Rolfe was the pioneer tobacco planter.
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Thus all about us is the moving and shifting spectacle of riches and poverty, side by side, inextricable.
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Only at moments was he aware of this—a kind of higher Self, detached from shifting moods, looked on calmly and took note.
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From that time its reputation has kept pace with its cultivation, until it now enjoys a world wide popularity.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
The cultivation of tobacco gradually spread from one State to another.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.