reclaimed land — ➔ land1 * * * reclaimed land UK US noun [U] ► ENVIRONMENT, PROPERTY land that was under the sea or was in a very poor condition, but has been improved so that it can be used for farming or building on: »The houses are built on reclaimed land near … Financial and business terms
reclaimed land — melioruota žemė statusas Aprobuotas sritis melioracija apibrėžtis Žemės plotas, kuriame įrengta ir veikia melioracijos sistema. nuoroda http://www3.lrs.lt/pls/inter3/dokpaieska.showdoc l?p id=227319&p query=&p tr2= atitikmenys: angl. improved… … Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)
reclaimed land — artificial land created in coastal areas … Geography glossary
reclaimed land — See made land; reclamation … Ballentine's law dictionary
Land reclamation — For the sense of restoration, see land restoration. Reclaimed redirects here. For other uses, see Reclaim. Reclaiming in Perth, Australia 1964 Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, is the process to create new land from sea or riverbeds … Wikipedia
land — ▪ I. land land 1 [lænd] noun [uncountable] 1. PROPERTY FARMING ground, especially ground used for building or farming on: • Land has always been a good investment. ˌarable ˈland … Financial and business terms
Land reclamation — Many polders in the provinces of Holland and Utrecht are the result of the impoldering of alluvial land outside the dikes, or of lakes that originated from storm floods. Land recla mation, especially from the 16th century, can be traced in… … Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands
Land mines in Central America — are of the unfortunate by product of the cold war era conflict in the 1980s. Contrary to the requirements of generally accepted international law, the minefields of Central America were usually unmarked and unrecorded on maps. Once placed, mines… … Wikipedia
Reclaimed — Reclaim Re*claim (r[ e]*kl[=a]m ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reclaimed} (r[ e]*kl[=a]md ); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reclaiming}.] [F. r[ e]clamer, L. reclamare, reclamatum, to cry out against; pref. re re + clamare to call or cry aloud. See {Claim}.] 1. To… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
land reform — any program, esp. when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land among the landless. [1840 50, Amer.] * * * Deliberate change in the way agricultural land is held or owned, the methods of its… … Universalium