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tractor out

tractor out verb: to dismiss (a tenant, etc.) while replacing manual labour with tractors.

Verb

tractor out (third-person singular simple present tractors out, present participle tractoring out, simple past and past participle tractored out)

  1. (historical, transitive) To dismiss (a tenant, etc.) while replacing manual labour with tractors.
    • How is one to elucidate or scrutinize Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath with no reference to the Dust Bowl, the tractoring out of the Okies […]1965, Oscar Cargill, Toward a Pluralistic Criticism
    • But there was no place to go to farm or settle; the farms were being deserted, the big combines tractoring out the shacks and the little fields […]1973, Lucas Webb, Stribling: A Novel

Forms of tractor out

third-person singular presenttractors out
present participletractoring out
past participletractored out
pasttractored out

Questions about tractor out

What does tractor out mean?
Tractor out means to dismiss (a tenant, etc.) while replacing manual labour with tractors.
What part of speech is tractor out?
Tractor out is a verb.
What is the past tense of tractor out?
The past tense of tractor out is tractored out.

Words near tractor out in the dictionary

  1. tractor beams
  2. Tractor Boy
  3. Tractor Boys
  4. tractor driver
  5. tractor drivers
  6. tractor out
  7. tractor pull
  8. tractor pulls
  9. tractor trailer
  10. tractor trailers
  11. tractor unit

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