homesteading

[ hohm-sted-ing ]

noun

1. an act or instance of establishing a homestead.
2. Also called homesteading program, a federal program to improve deteriorating urban areas by offering abandoned or foreclosed houses to persons who agree to repair them and live in them for a specified number of years.

homesteading

/ ˈhəʊmˌstɛdɪŋ /

noun

1. 1. a scheme whereby council tenants are enabled to buy derelict property from the council and renovate it with the aid of Government grants
   2. ( as modifier )

      a homesteading scheme

Word History and Origins

Origin of homesteading¹

First recorded in 1890–95, for earlier sense “homestead”; homestead + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

People hold live social events, buy digital plots, and create a homesteading approach.

From Digiday

Prices are expected to start in the mid-$500,000s, the builder said, which is beyond the reach of many on the homesteading waitlist.

From ProPublica

The department also would have the right to purchase the home, and that property would be added to DHHL’s inventory of available homesteading lands.

From ProPublica

Nevertheless, the casino measure underscores a growing realization within DHHL that the homesteading program’s problems are worse than previously thought — and far from being fixed.

From ProPublica

Waihee said the state had little land on the island at the time that was fit for homesteading.

From ProPublica

And as cruel as the homesteading existence can be, city life is worse.

From The Daily Beast

If this urban homesteading operation is successful, more are almost certain to follow, giving occupation a whole new meaning.

From The Daily Beast

And who epitomizes the homesteading patriarch better than John Wayne?

From The Daily Beast

They are all Eastern women, all homesteading; but they never can save money enough to go back East.

From Project Gutenberg

I think now that I made a mistake and that neither of us ought ever to have attempted homesteading.

From Project Gutenberg

Or if the luxuries didn't catch his eye, would he be interested in the planetary homesteading gear?

From Project Gutenberg

I'll even try to tolerate that club-footed cowboy's brass in homesteading a ranch right under my nose.

From Project Gutenberg

Some of the girls we knew talked about "going homesteading" as a wild adventure.

From Project Gutenberg

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