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LAND REFORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does land reform mean? 

LAND REFORM (noun)
  The noun LAND REFORM has 1 sense:

1. a redistribution of agricultural land (especially by government action)play

  Familiarity information: LAND REFORM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LAND REFORM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A redistribution of agricultural land (especially by government action)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("land reform" is a kind of...):

reform (a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses)

Domain category:

administration; governance; governing; government; government activity (the act of governing; exercising authority)


 Context examples 


Little has changed in the land distribution of the devastation: the largest portion of the total area deforested over the 12-month period consisted of private properties (35.4%), followed by land reform settlements (28.6%), unassigned public land (24%) and conservancy units (12%).

(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)



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