land-use
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.12 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, or related to the use of land.
Example Sentences
- "1993, Soil Resources, Management and Conservation Service, Guidelines for Land-use Planning For subsequent land evaluation, these management standards are built into the defined land-use types."
- "We selected Yanchang County as an example to track land use changes and their effects on the livelihood of the local population following the implementation of a new land use policy known as the Grain for Green Project (GGP). The data were collected from statistical yearbooks, questionnaire surveys, and satellite imagery from 1990, 2000, and 2008. We found that dramatic land use changes have occurred in Yanchang County."
- "This year, the world’s leading scientists warned human civilisation was in jeopardy because forest clearance, land-use shifts, pollution and climate change had put a million species at risk of extinction."