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tractoring out

tractoring out is the present participle and gerund 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 tractoring out

What is tractoring out the present participle and gerund of?
Tractoring out is the present participle and gerund of tractor out.

Words near tractoring out in the dictionary

  1. tractoration
  2. tractored
  3. tractored out
  4. tractories
  5. tractoring
  6. tractoring out
  7. tractorisation
  8. tractorise
  9. tractorised
  10. tractorises
  11. tractorising

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