arable
adjective
uk
/ˈær.ə.bəl/ us
/ˈer.ə.bəl/Synonym
Meaning of arable in English
(Definition of arable from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
arable | American Dictionary
arable
adjective
us
/ˈær·ə·bəl/arable | Business English
arable
adjective
uk
/ˈærəbl/ us
Examples of arable
arable
This largely determined the maximum of ten hectares (arable equivalent) and ensured that only symbolic holdings would be given to farm workers lacking ownership claims.
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Possibly, this urban market absorbed part of the area's rural workforce, thereby lightening the pressure on those who sought access to arable land.
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The implications of restricting use of fertilizer nitrogen for the productivity of arable crops, their profitability and potential pollution by nitrate.
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Possibly the area was used as arable land, but we have no evidence for that hypothesis.
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That the principal object of a site for arable farming or animal husbandry enjoys much attention is simply stating the obvious.
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Both arable farming and animal husbandry were firmly embedded in social values and cosmological ideas.
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Virtually all people in the research area are well aware of the general shortage of arable land and the competition over it.
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The organic farms cultivated, in 1999, about 270,000 ha farmland, 60,000 ha of which was arable land.
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This corresponds to 15 times the arable land used for the production of feedstuffs in the region itself!
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The area is dominated by arable land, grazed and abandoned pastures, spruce plantations and deciduous woods.
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Although farmers have long attempted to do this for weeds in arable fields, seed bank manipulation, especially for conservation, is in its infancy.
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The inhabitants occupied numerous small pieces of arable land rendered fertile by the surrounding wetlands.
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Testing a stockless arable organic rotation on a fertile soil.
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They were transformed into arable land with plots divided by shallow ditches (figure 6e).
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Where the horse played a major transpor t role, one-third of available, arable land was devoted to oat production.
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trồng trọt được…
uprawny…
odlingsbar…
tanah suai tani…
bebaubar…
dyrkbar, oppdyrket…
경작할 수 있는…
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