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tractored out

tractored out is the simple past and past participle of tractor out.

Meaning of tractor out

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

Questions about tractored out

What is tractored out the simple past and past participle of?
Tractored out is the simple past and past participle of tractor out.

Words near tractored out in the dictionary

  1. tractor-trailer
  2. tractor-trailers
  3. tractorable
  4. tractoration
  5. tractored
  6. tractored out
  7. tractories
  8. tractoring
  9. tractoring out
  10. tractorisation
  11. tractorise

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