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SOIL BANK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does soil bank mean?
• SOIL BANK (noun)
The noun SOIL BANK has 1 sense:
1. land retired from crop cultivation and planted with soil-building crops; government subsidies are paid to farmers for their retired land
Familiarity information: SOIL BANK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Land retired from crop cultivation and planted with soil-building crops; government subsidies are paid to farmers for their retired land
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("soil bank" is a kind of...):
bank (a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies))
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