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LAND-USE

Specialty Definition: LAND-USE

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Geological

Present and historical uses of land, such as for agriculture, mining, recreation and grazing. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: LAND-USE

Specialty definitions using "LAND-USE": GISnon-point source pollution. (references)

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Commercial Usage: LAND-USE

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Books

  • Late Glacial-Early Postglacial Hunting Strategies and Land-Use Practices in the Swabian Alb Amd Surrounding Regions (Southwestern B.R.D.) (reference)

  • Effects of Land-Use Change on Atmospheric Co2 Concentrations: South and Southeast Asia As a Case Study (Ecological Studies, Vol 101) (reference)

  • Cooperating With Nature: Confronting Natural Hazards With Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Communities (Natural Hazards and Disasters) (reference)

  • Groping through the maze : foreign experience applied to the U.S. problem of coordinating development controls : a Conservation Foundation report from the International Comparative Land-Use Program (reference)

  • The Homevoter Hypothesis: How Home Values Influence Local Government Taxation, School Finance, and Land-Use Policies (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: LAND-USE

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As part of long-term Agricultural Research Service experiments to learn the effects of different land-use sytems on crops and soils, chemist Chris Roager extracts nitrogen from soil samples taken from test plots at Pendleton, Oregon. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: LAND-USE

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Economic History

Vietnam

Disadvantages include more difficult access to land-use rights (except in industrial zones and export processing zones) and a more limited duration of license. (references)

India

The speed and quality of regulatory decisions governing important issues such as zoning, land-use and environment varies dramatically from one state to another. (references)

Vietnam

On the positive side, the Vietnamese partner, which is typically a state-owned enterprise ("SOE"), may contribute crucial relationships with government officials and clients, local market know-how, staff, and land-use rights. (references)

Human Rights

Burma

The law does not permit private ownership of land; it recognizes only different categories of land-use rights, many of which are not freely transferable. (references)

Trade

Vietnam

Project finance has not taken off due to State Foreign Exchange controls, a absence of guarantees on return, inadequate loan security (no mortgaging of land-use rights, no step in rights, underdeveloped dispute resolution procedures), corruption and the fact that every negotiation is completely different from previous agreements. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: LAND-USE

"LAND-USE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LAND-USE" is used about 131 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%13127,855

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: LAND-USE

Language Translations for "LAND-USE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

землепользование. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: LAND-USE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: unlades, unleads.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-n-s-u"

-1 letter: elands, ladens, naleds, sendal, suldan, sundae, unlade, unlead, unseal.

-2 letters: dales, deals, deans, duals, duels, dulse, dunes, eland, elans, laden, lades, lands, lanes, lased, lauds, leads, leans, lends, leuds, ludes, lunas, lunes, naled, nudes, saned, sedan, slued, ulans, ulnad, ulnae, ulnas, unled, usnea.

-3 letters: ales, ands, anes, anus, auld, dale, dals, deal, dean.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-n-s-u"
 

+1 letter: launders, lurdanes, unlashed, unleased, unsaddle, unsalted, unscaled, unsealed, unslaked.

 

+2 letters: adultness, auslander, dauntless, dulcineas, dunelands, glandules, insulated, laundress, laundries, lunkheads, soundable, unclasped, underlaps, underlays, undulates, unleashed, unloaders, unpleased, unsaddled, unsaddles, unsnarled, uplanders.

 

+3 letters: andalusite, andouilles, aneuploids, auslanders, calendulas, candlenuts, delusional, dentaliums, encapsuled, endosulfan, gardenfuls, landaulets, languished, launderers, outlanders, roundelays, slanderous, soundalike, sulfonated, supplanted, ultradense, unassailed, underclass, underplays, unsalaried, unshackled, unsteadily, vulcanised, wanderlust.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LAND-USE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 41 4E 44 2D 55 53 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000001 01001110 01000100 00101101 01010101 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#45 &#85 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 004E 0044 002D 0055 0053 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4635483815555339

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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