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land clearer

land clearer noun: someone or something that clears land of vegetation, usually in preparation for development.

Noun

land clearer (plural land clearers)

  1. Someone or something that clears land of vegetation, usually in preparation for development.
    • Recently the Angela goat has attracted considerable attention as a land clearer.1903, Farmers' Bulletin - Issues 126-150, page 7
    • Symbolically, to his work as a pilot Lincoln added that of land clearer, chopping down the branches that impeded the progress of the steamer toward the confluence of the Sangamon and the Illinois.1994, Olivier Frayssé, Lincoln, Land, and Labor, 1809-60, →ISBN, page 54
  2. (broadly) One who prepares the way for a project or type of endeavor by removing obstacles.
    • It is as a pioneer and “land clearer” that we know Martin-Löf – one of the principal clarifiers of the syntax and semantics of constructive mathematics.2012 -, P. Dybjer, Sten Lindström, Erik Palmgren, Epistemology versus Ontology, →ISBN

Forms of land clearer

pluralland clearers

Questions about land clearer

What does land clearer mean?
Land clearer means someone or something that clears land of vegetation, usually in preparation for development.
What part of speech is land clearer?
Land clearer is a noun.
What is the plural of land clearer?
The plural of land clearer is land clearers.

Words near land clearer in the dictionary

  1. land bridges
  2. land bubble
  3. land bubbles
  4. Land camera
  5. Land cameras
  6. land clearer
  7. land clearers
  8. land crab
  9. land crabs
  10. land cress
  11. land cruiser

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