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seasteading

Syllables: sea·stead·ing/ˈsiː.stɛ.dɪŋ/US/ˈsiˌstɛ.dɪŋ/

seasteading noun: the creation of permanent dwellings at sea, especially outside the territory claimed by any national government.

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Noun

seasteading (uncountable)

  1. The creation of permanent dwellings at sea, especially outside the territory claimed by any national government.
    • The territorial sea offers a new realm for individual and small business enterprises. The Commission recommends an experimental program to encourage new uses of the ocean through State leases of submarine areas within U.S. territorial waters. Such a program might be called "seasteading."1969 January, Our Nation and the Sea: A Plan for National Action: Report of the Commission on Marine Science, Engineering and Resources, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office...
    • Benefits from the acquisition of this new territory include the development of tremendous oil and gas reserves, new mineral, chemical and pharmaceutical resources, fish farms and such things as “seasteading” by private companies […]1969, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates [...], volume 115, part 21, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28085, column 2

Examples of seasteading in a sentence

  • "Seasteading" may one day assume the pioneering role in underwater colonization that homesteading played in past settlement of the grasslands of the American West.1969, Saturday Review, volume 52, New York, N.Y.: Saturday Review Associates, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52:
  • Seasteading (self-sufficient boat living) was the answer.1977, New Age Journal, volume 3, Brookline Village, Mass.: New Age Communications, →OCLC, page 193:
  • For those of you looking to escape into international waters, there’s always seasteading to consider — modular, autonomous, voluntary city-states.2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo:
  • As a seastead supporter wrote on one of our discussion forums, a key difference between the founders of nations and the creators of seasteads is that "seasteading aggresses against no one.2017 March, Joe Quirk, with Patri Friedman, “Home: This Isn’t Planet Earth”, in Seasteading: How Floating Nations will Restore the...

Origin of seasteading

Blend of sea + homesteading, coined in a 1969 United States commission report (see quotations).

Questions about seasteading

What does seasteading mean?
Seasteading means the creation of permanent dwellings at sea, especially outside the territory claimed by any national government.
How do you use seasteading in a sentence?
"Seasteading" may one day assume the pioneering role in underwater colonization that homesteading played in past settlement of the grasslands of the American West.
What part of speech is seasteading?
Seasteading is a noun.
How do you pronounce seasteading?
Seasteading is pronounced /ˈsiː.stɛ.dɪŋ/ (UK).

Words near seasteading in the dictionary

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  2. seastars
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  4. seasteader
  5. seasteaders
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  7. seasteads
  8. seastorm
  9. seastorms
  10. seastrand
  11. seastrands

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