acreage
noun
acre·age
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Examples of acreage in a Sentence
A large portion of the park's acreage is forest.
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Norwell Farms has held the no-payment lease for 10 years, and — after having problems over the years finding a vegetable farmer to till the land — has sublet the acreage to Cross Street Flower Farm for the past two years. — Johanna Seltz, BostonGlobe.com, "A turf war blossoms at Norwell farm," 5 Sep. 2019 Total farm acreage in Wisconsin also shrank by 2% over that time. — Scott Bauer, Twin Cities, "Proposals designed to help struggling Wisconsin farmers," 3 Sep. 2019 Washington state alone, with 41,263 acres planted for harvest, accounts for 72% of the total U.S. acreage. — Tonia Moxley, chicagotribune.com, "Virginia grower beats the heat of the hops harvest," 8 Aug. 2019 Located few miles away from the existing Universal Resort hub in Orlando, within a larger 750-acre site, the park (at least based on early renderings) will virtually double Universal's total acreage in Central Florida. — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, "Universal Orlando Announces ‘Epic Universe’ Theme Park," 1 Aug. 2019 This serves the liberal goal of locking up more acreage for political control, and the Democratic House will likely pass it this summer. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, "A Fund That Will Never Run Dry," 9 July 2019 The purchase brings total acreage of the preserve to 3,613 acres. — Ramona Sentinel, "Supervisors expand grasslands preserve," 13 June 2019 While the number of farms that grow strawberries isn’t increasing, Tritten said farms have been adding acreage for several years to meet demand. — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, "Michigan-grown strawberries are arriving late and here's why," 7 June 2019 The 2,425 acres Glassman is proposing to preserve this year is the largest total acreage at one time in Harford County in 10 years, the county executive said. — Erika Butler, The Aegis, "As Harford prepares to preserve 2,400 acres of farmland, council member attempts to discontinue program," 9 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'acreage.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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acreage
noun
English Language Learners Definition of acreage
: land measured in acres
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acreage
noun
acre·age
| \ ˈā-kə-rij
, ˈā-krij\
, ˈā-krij\
Kids Definition of acreage
: area in acres