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(lănd) 
n.
v., land·ed, land·ing, lands. v.tr.
n.
- The solid ground of the earth.
- Ground or soil: tilled the land.
- A topographically or functionally distinct tract: desert land; prime building land.
- A nation; a country.
- The people of a nation, district, or region.
- lands Territorial possessions or property.
- Public or private landed property; real estate.
- Law.
- A tract that may be owned, together with everything growing or constructed on it.
- A landed estate.
- An agricultural or farming area: wanted to buy a house on the land.
- Farming considered as a way of life: "The 'back to the land movement' began a couple years ago at the peak of South Korea's economic development and has roots in environmentalism and Buddhist philosophy." (Michael Baker).
- An area or realm: the land of make-believe; the land of television.
- The raised portion of a grooved surface, as on a phonograph record.
v., land·ed, land·ing, lands. v.tr.
- To bring to and unload on land: land cargo.
- To set (a vehicle) down on land or another surface: land an airplane smoothly; land a seaplane on a lake.
- Informal. To cause to arrive in a place or condition: Civil disobedience will land you in jail.
- To catch and pull in (a fish): landed a big catfish.
- Informal. To win; secure: land a big contract.
- Informal. To deliver: landed a blow on his opponent's head.
- To come to shore: landed against the current with great difficulty.
- To disembark: landed at a crowded dock.
- To descend toward and settle onto the ground or another surface: The helicopter has landed.
- Informal. To arrive in a place or condition: landed at the theater too late for the opening curtain; landed in trouble for being late.
- To come to rest in a certain way or place: slipped and landed on his shoulder.
[Middle English, from Old English.]
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In economics, the resource that encompasses the natural resources used in production. In classical economics, the three factors of production are land, labour, and capital. Land was considered to be the original and inexhaustible gift of nature. In modern economics, it is broadly defined to include all that nature provides, including minerals, forest products, and water and land resources. While many of these are renewable resources, no one considers them inexhaustible. The payment to land is called rent. Like land, its definition has been broadened over time to include payment to any productive resource with a relatively fixed supply.
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The surface of the earth; any part of the surface of the earth. (Note:
Legal definitions often distinguish land from water.)
Example: Extent of land as real property (Figure 105).
air rights may be limited to some defined altitude. Added improvements are distinguished from land.
FIG. 105. EXTENT OF LAND OWNERSHIP
Legal definitions often distinguish land from water.)
Example: Extent of land as real property (Figure 105).
air rights may be limited to some defined altitude. Added improvements are distinguished from land.
FIG. 105. EXTENT OF LAND OWNERSHIP
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Real estate held for productive use or investment. Land is recorded at the acquisition price plus incidental costs including real estate commissions, attorney's fees, escrow fees, title and recording fees, delinquent taxes paid by the buyer, surveying costs, draining, and grading of the property.
The cost of knocking down an old building to clear the land to construct a new building is charged to the land account.Amounts received from selling materials salvaged from the old building reduces the cost of the land.
Land is usually presented under the property, plant, and equipment section of the balance sheet. However, land bought for investment purposes or as a future plant site is classified under investments. If land is held by a real estate business for resale, it is shown as inventory.
Land is not subject to depreciation because it is not a wasting asset.
The cost of knocking down an old building to clear the land to construct a new building is charged to the land account.Amounts received from selling materials salvaged from the old building reduces the cost of the land.
Land is usually presented under the property, plant, and equipment section of the balance sheet. However, land bought for investment purposes or as a future plant site is classified under investments. If land is held by a real estate business for resale, it is shown as inventory.
Land is not subject to depreciation because it is not a wasting asset.
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land
noun
- An organized geopolitical unit: body politic, country, nation, polity, state. See politics, territory.
- Usually extensive real estate: acre (often used in plural), estate, property. See owned/unowned.
verb
- To come ashore from a seacraft: debark, disembark. See move/halt.
- To come to rest on the ground: alight1, light2, set down, settle, touch down. See move/halt.
- To come into possession of: acquire, come by, gain, get, obtain, procure, secure, win. Informal pick up. See get/lose.
Idioms beginning with land:
land on
land up
land-office business
See also cloud-cuckoo land; fall (land) on one's feet; fat of the land; la-la land; lay of the land; never-never land.
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n
Definition: earth's surface; ownable property
Antonyms: sea, sky
v
Definition: achieve, acquire
Antonyms: fail, lose
v
Definition: arrive, come to rest on
Antonyms: ascend, take off
1. Part of the surface of the earth not permanently covered by water.
2. Any immoveable improvements or fixtures attached thereto.
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land, in law, any ground, soil, or earth regarded as the subject of ownership, including trees, water, buildings added by humans, the air above, and the earth below. Private ownership of land does not exist in groups that live by hunting, fishing, or herding; e.g., in pre-Columbian times in America, the tribe owned the land, and each individual had equal access to it and equal rights to its use. In simple agricultural groups, as in early Europe, the village community made an annual allotment of land to individuals for cultivation. Similar allotments were made under the manorial system. A communal form of rural landholding persisted in Russia into the 20th cent. and still exists in India. The modern sovereign state asserts dominion over all property within its territorial limits, including the land, and by the right of eminent domain (see public ownership) can seize privately owned land for public use, with the proviso that the owner be justly compensated. In the former Soviet Union ownership of all land was vested in the nation outright, individuals and organizations being granted provisional rights to its use. Widely distributed private ownership of farmland has been regarded in Western countries as socially-if not always economically-advantageous. The concentration of landholding in a few hands has frequently led to political unrest and social upheaval, as in Latin America, Spain, Italy, the Middle East, and parts of Asia. In economics the term land is used to designate one of the main factors of production; it is another name for nature or natural resources. But few natural resources are free; farmland, for instance, is almost valueless without cultivation. In order to extract crops, minerals, and energy from the land, labor and capital must be applied. In economic theories of value, the share assigned to land as a factor in production is called rent.
See also public land; tenure; property.
Bibliography
See A. W. Griswold, Farming and Democracy (1948); G. Hallett, The Economics of Agricultural Land Tenure (1960); R. E. Megarry and H. W. R. Wade, The Law of Real Property (3d ed. 1966); A. W. Simpson, A History of the Land Law (2d ed. 1986).
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Broadly, any ground, soil, or earth. More specifically, the term refers to real estate or real property, 42 P. 2d 292; or to any tract which may be conveyed by deed. 125 F. 2d 430, 434. “Land” may comprehend an estate or interest in real property. 161 S.E. 2d 163, 166. It often refers not only to the soil and earth itself, but also to things of a permanent nature found there or affixed thereto. 166 S.E.
570, 580. See grant [land grant]; run with the land, tide land.
570, 580. See grant [land grant]; run with the land, tide land.
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Property or real estate, not including buildings or equipment, that does not occur naturally. Depending on the title, land ownership may also give the holder the rights to all natural resources on the land. These may include water, plants, human and animal life, fossils, soil, minerals, electromagnetic features, geographical location, and geophysical occurrences.
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In the traditional school of economics, land is considered a factor of production, along with labor and capital.
Selling land results in a capital gain or loss. As opposed to almost any other asset, land is not a depreciable asset under IRS tax laws. Land ownership does not contain or include any permissions to develop the property, as opposed to a 'plot', which is a real property that is slated for development.
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A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce
n.
A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. Carried to its logical conclusion, it means that some have the right to prevent others from living; for the right to own implies the right exclusively to occupy; and in fact laws of trespass are enacted wherever property in land is recognized. It follows that if the whole area of terra firma is owned by A, B and C, there will be no place for D, E, F and G to be born, or, born as trespassers, to exist.
A life on the ocean wave,
A home on the rolling deep,
For the spark the nature gave
I have there the right to keep.
They give me the cat-o'-nine
Whenever I go ashore.
Then ho! for the flashing brine --
I'm a natural commodore!
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Quotes:
"You are the land. The land is you."
- Merlin
"Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for -- worth dying for."
- Margaret Mitchell
"To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself."
- Leonard Cohen
"Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life."
- Joseph Conrad
"Topographically the country is magnificent -- and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak."
- Henry Miller
"The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people."
- Robert Frost
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categories related to 'land'
- Earth’s Atmosphere and Topographic Features - land: solid part of Earth’s surface, not covered by water
- Soils and Soil Management - land: Earth’s surface and its resources
- Fishing Practice and Techniques - land: (vb) bring hooked fish in to shore or net
- Directions - land: attain one’s destination, esp. from above
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Land (economics)
This article is about Land economics. For the journal, see Land Economics (journal).
In economics, land comprises all naturally occurring resources whose supply is inherently fixed. Examples are any and all particular geographical locations, mineral deposits, and even geostationary orbit locations and portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Natural resources are fundamental to the production of all goods, including capital goods. Location values must not be confused with values imparted by fixed capital improvements. In classical economics, land is considered one of the three factors of production (along with capital, and labor). In some cases, land may be merged with capital due to the relatively small importance that land has in industrial and service sectors. Income derived from ownership or control of natural resources is referred to as rent.
Land was sometimes defined in classical and neoclassical economics as the "original and indestructible powers of the soil."[1] Georgists hold that this implies a perfectly inelastic supply curve (i.e., zero elasticity), suggesting that a land value tax that recovers the rent of land for public purposes would not affect the opportunity cost of using land, but would instead only decrease the value of owning it. This view is supported by evidence that although land can come on and off the market, market inventories of land show if anything an inverse relationship to price (i.e., negative elasticity).
As a tangible asset land is represented in accounting as a fixed asset or a capital asset.
Land, particularly geographic locations and mineral deposits, has historically been the cause of much conflict and dispute; land reform programs, which are designed to redistribute possession and/or use of geographic land, are often the cause of much controversy, and conflicts over the economic rent of mineral deposits have contributed to many civil wars, particularly in Africa.
See also
References
- Anthony C. Fisher (1987). "Natural resources," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 3, pp. 612-14.
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Land
Dansk (Danish)
n. - land, rige, delstat, jord
v. tr. - landsætte, udskibe, sætte i land, bringe i land, sende
v. intr. - lande, komme i havn
idioms:
- land forces landstyrker
- land mass landmasse
- land mine landmine
- land of the living jordelivet
- land on lande på, ramme
- land on one's feet lande på benene, klare sig
- land reform jordreform
- land registry tinglysningskontor, matrikelkontor, matrikeldirektorat
- land up ende, havne
- landed estate gods
- see how the land lies sondere terrænet, se hvordan landet ligger
n. - provins i Tyskland eller Østrig
Nederlands (Dutch)
land, grond, grondbezit, terrein, domein, akker met omheining, veld (ook van vuurwapen), het platteland, landgoed, gebied, het rijk (der), landen, aan land gaan, belanden (in), in de wacht slepen, oogsten, binnenhalen (vis), (klap etc.) uitdelen, uitladen
Français (French)
n. - terre, (Agric) terre, terres, terrain, pays
v. tr. - décharger, débarquer, poser (un avion), amener à bord, hisser sur le pont, amener sur le rivage, décrocher (un contrat)
v. intr. - atterrir, se poser, amerrir, apponter, alunir, se poser sur la lune, (re)tomber (qn, qch), arriver, se recevoir (un gymnaste), se poser sur (qch) (un oiseau)
idioms:
- in the land of the living (être) encore de ce monde
- land forces forces terrestres, armée de terre
- land mass masse terrestre
- land mine (Mil) mine terrestre
- land on atterrir sur, tomber sur, toucher à, se retrouver sur (une cible)
- land on one's feet retomber sur ses pieds
- land reform réforme agraire
- land registry bureau du cadastre
- land up se retrouver
- landed estate propriété foncière
- see how the land lies (fig) tâter le terrain, voir de quoi il retourne
n. - La Terre (promise/sainte)
Deutsch (German)
n. - Land
v. - landen, anlegen, aussteigen, aufsetzen, an Land ziehen, versetzen, erringen
idioms:
- in the land of the living wach sein
- land forces Landstreitkräfte
- land mass Landmasse
- land mine Landmine
- land on jmdn. heimsuchen
- land on one's feet auf den Füßen landen
- land reform Landreform
- land registry Grundbuchamt
- land up landen
- landed estate Grundbesitz
- see how the land lies sehen, wie die Dinge liegen
n. - (D)(Ös) Land, Bundesland
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - γη, έδαφος, ξηρά, στεριά, τόπος, χώρα, επικράτεια, έκταση, κτήματα
v. - αποβιβάζω/-ομαι, προσγειώνω/-ομαι, προσεδαφίζω/-ομαι, πετυχαίνω, βρίσκω, καταλήγω, δίνω (χτύπημα), φορτώνω
idioms:
- land forces δυνάμεις ξηράς
- land mass μεγάλη έκταση γης
- land mine νάρκη ξηράς
- land of the living ο κόσμος των ζώντων
- land on προσγειώνομαι σε
- land on one's feet στέκομαι τυχερός, πέφτω στα μαλακά
- land reform αγροτική μεταρρύθμιση, αναδασμός
- land registry κτηματολόγιο
- land up καταλήγω, φθάνω τελικά (σε)
- landed estate ακίνητη περιουσία, κτηματική περιουσία
- lay of the land διαμόρφωση του εδάφους, διάταξη των πραγμάτων
- see how the land lies εξετάζω τα κατατόπια, βολιδοσκοπώ την κατάσταση
Italiano (Italian)
aggiudicarsi, sbarcare, atterrare, campo, proprietà, terreno, dominio
idioms:
- how the land lies come stanno le cose
- land forces esercito
- land mass massa continentale
- land mine mina terrestre
- land of the living vivente
- land on aggiudicarsi
- land on one's feet cadere in piedi
- land reform riforma agraria
- land registry catasto
- land up finire
- landed estate proprietà fondiaria
Português (Portuguese)
n. - terra (f), país (m)
v. - pousar, desembarcar
idioms:
- land forces forças (f pl) terrestres
- land mass grande área de terra
- land mine mina (f) terrestre
- land of the living terra dos vivos
- land on falar zangadamente com alguém
- land on one's feet (coloq.) safar-se, dar um jeito
- land reform reforma (f) agrária
- land registry registro de terra
- land up ir parar
- landed estate estado com terras
- see how the land lies em que pé estão as coisas
Русский (Russian)
земля, страна, земельный участок, высаживаться, приземляться, помещать
idioms:
- land forces сухопутные войска
- land mass земля
- land mine мина
- land of the living на этом свете
- land on приземлиться
- land on one's feet удачно приземлиться
- land reform земельная реформа
- land registry земельный кадастр
- land up очутиться
- landed estate земельная собственность
- see how the land lies знать, как обстоят дела
Español (Spanish)
n. - tierra, campo, suelo, propiedad, posesión, hacienda, estancia, finca, bienes raíces, terreno, heredad, dominio
v. tr. - conseguir, lograr, meter, sacar, desembarcar, aterrizar, tomar tierra
v. intr. - desembarcar, aterrizar, bajar a tierra, apearse, tomar tierra, ir a parar, llegar, caer
idioms:
- in the land of the living estar vivo, vivito y coleando, en el reino de los vivos
- land forces fuerzas terrestres, ejército de tierra
- land mass masa continental
- land mine mina terrestre
- land on hacer blanco en, caer encima, endilgar o encajarle algo a alguien
- land on one's feet caer de pies
- land reform reforma agraria
- land registry catastro, registro de la propiedad
- land up ir a parar a
- landed estate bienes raíces
- see how the land lies tantear el terreno, hacer un reconocimiento
n. - campo, tierra, terreno
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - landa, gå ned, landsätta, dra i land, hamna
v. - land (i motsats till hav), rike, ägd mark, jord, (tekn.) oräfflat parti (i gevärspipa), bom, (Skottl.) hyreshus
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
陆地, 地界, 地面
陆地, 田地, 土地, 国土, 国家, 使上岸, 使到达, 使登陆, 靠岸, 登岸, 登陆
idioms:
- land forces 陆军
- land mass 地块, 陆块
- land mine 地雷
- land of the living 人世, 现世
- land on 尖锐批评, 责骂
- land on one's feet 安然脱险
- land reform 土地改革
- land registry 地政局, 地籍局
- land up 使淤塞
- landed estate 地产, 被缠住
- see how the land lies 看看究竟是怎么回事, 弄清情况
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 陸地, 地界, 地面
n. - 陸地, 田地, 土地, 國土, 國家
v. tr. - 使上岸, 使到達, 使登陸
v. intr. - 靠岸, 登岸, 登陸
idioms:
- land forces 陸軍
- land mass 地塊, 陸塊
- land mine 地雷
- land of the living 人世, 現世
- land on 尖銳批評, 責罵
- land on one's feet 安然脫險
- land reform 土地改革
- land registry 地政局, 地籍局
- land up 使淤塞
- landed estate 地產, 被纏住
- see how the land lies 看看究竟是怎麼回事, 弄清情況
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 땅, 지면, 토양, 천연자원, 국토
v. tr. - 상륙 시키다, 도착 시키다, 잡다, 가하다
v. intr. - 육지에 닿다, 뛰어내리다, 실리다 , 도착하다
idioms:
- land on 상륙하다 , 비난하다
- land up 목표점에 도달하다
n. - 미국의 폴라로이드 발명가
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 陸, 土地, 土壌, 住民, 国民, 国, 国土, 田園, 所有地, 領域
v. - 着陸する, 上陸する, 陸揚げする, 得る, 捕らえる, 陥らせる, 加える, 手に入れる
idioms:
- land forces 陸上部隊
- land mass 大陸
- land mine 地雷
- land of the living 現世, この世, 日常社会
- land on 着艦する
- land on one's feet 難を逃れる
- land reform 農地改革
- land registry 土地登記
- land up 落ちつく
- never-never land 夢の国
- no-man's land 中間地帯, 主のない土地, 無人地帯, 敵味方の中間地帯
- Promised Land 約束の地, 理想郷
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) اليابسه, بلد, أرض, عقار (فعل) ينزل إلى اليابسه, يصيد سمكه, يعتقل أو يقبض على, يصل إلى فندق
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - יבשה, אדמה, קרקע, ארץ, מדינה, אחוזה
v. tr. - הנחית, זכה ב-, השיג, הוריד (אדם או משא) מאוניה, כלי-רכב וכו'
v. intr. - השיג, עלה ליבשה, נחת
n. - מחוז גרמני או אוסטרי
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