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land-poor

land-poor is the alternative form of land poor.

Meaning of land poor

Adjective

land poor (comparative more land poor, superlative most land poor)

  1. (US, idiomatic) In a condition of poverty as a result of inability to meet tax payments or other financial requirements for one's land holdings.
    • "I was offered a thousand acres, the other day, at twenty-five cents an acre," remarked the doctor. "The owner is so land-poor that he can't pay the taxes."1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter XV, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC

Forms of land-poor

comparativemore land-poor
superlativemost land-poor

Questions about land-poor

What is land-poor the alternative form of?
Land-poor is the alternative form of land poor.

Words near land-poor in the dictionary

  1. land-locked salmon
  2. land-lover
  3. land-lovers
  4. land-mass
  5. land-masses
  6. land-poor
  7. land-salamander
  8. land-salamanders
  9. land-shark
  10. land-sharked
  11. land-sharking

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