acreage

acre | American Dictionary

acre
noun[ C ]
us/ˈeɪ·kər/
a unit for measuring area, equal to 43,560 square feet or 4047 square meters:
They bought half an acre of land to build their house on.

acreage

noun[ U ]us/ˈeɪ·kər·ɪdʒ/
Forest covers half the acreage.

acre | Business English

acre
noun[ C ]
 MEASURESuk /ˈeɪkər/us
a unit for measuring area, equal to 4840 square yards or 4047 square metres:
The companies all have more than 1,000 acres designated for heavy industry.

Examples of acre

acre
The town would contain about 32,000 people and have a fairly high population density of 70-100 persons per acre.
The number of tenants with 1 acre remains static (perhaps through data problems).
Fully enclosed parishes tended to pay more per acre than those which were as yet largely unenclosed.
Almost every acre of land has been utilized, rationally planned and arranged or frozen into a nature reserve.
The coefficient estimates for the acres leased are also as expected.
Between 1862 and 1872, the federal government spent millions of dollars and allotted over 100 million acres of land to railroad corporations.
In addition, the relationship enabled potato producers to grow more acres of potato and use silage corn as a rotation crop.
For many in the class with up to five acres, husbandry only supplemented an income primarily derived from industrial wages.
They have also cultivated 15 acres of swampy rice.
As a result, 555,000 owner farmer households were created and maintained during the period 1926 to 1945, involving 299,000 acres of land.
Of these, perhaps 1,200 men controlled in excess of thirty acres.
The net return per acre-inch of groundwater was higher for small and marginal farms compared with large farms.
The area of commons enclosed in 1621 can be calculated at about 4,500 acres.
On average, farmers clear 0.7 acres per year from closed cover forests.
His first two rubber estates employed 3,000 workers and were 450 and 550 acres in size.
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Collocations withacre

acre

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acre of corn
They do not have an acreofcorn or sugar beet.
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