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land-use

land-use adjective: of, or related to the use of land.

Adjective

land-use (not comparable)

  1. Of, or related to the use of land.
    • For subsequent land evaluation, these management standards are built into the defined land-use types.1993, Soil Resources, Management and Conservation Service, Guidelines for Land-use Planning
    • We selected Yanchang County as an example to track land use changes and their effects on the livelihood of the local population following the implementation of a new land use policy known as the Grain for Green Project (GGP). The data were collected from statistical yearbooks, questionnaire...2014 September, Nahui Zhen, Bojie Fu, Yihe Lü, Zhenmin Zheng, “Changes of livelihood due to land use shifts: A case study of Yanchang County in the Loess Plateau of China”, in Land Use Policy, volume...

Questions about land-use

What does land-use mean?
Land-use means of, or related to the use of land.
What part of speech is land-use?
Land-use is an adjective.

Words near land-use in the dictionary

  1. land-sharking
  2. land-sharks
  3. land-surface
  4. land-take
  5. land-tide
  6. land-use
  7. land-yacht
  8. land-yachts
  9. Landa
  10. landability
  11. landable

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