land

1. The solid ground of the earth.
2. 1. Ground or soil: tilled the land.
   2. A topographically or functionally distinct tract: desert land; prime building land.
3. 1. A nation; a country.
   2. The people of a nation, district, or region.
   3. lands Territorial possessions or property.
4. Public or private landed property; real estate.
5. Law.
   1. A tract that may be owned, together with everything growing or constructed on it.
   2. A landed estate.
6. 1. An agricultural or farming area: wanted to buy a house on the land.
   2. 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).
7. An area or realm: the land of make-believe; the land of television.
8. The raised portion of a grooved surface, as on a phonograph record.

1. 1. To bring to and unload on land: land cargo.
   2. To set (a vehicle) down on land or another surface: land an airplane smoothly; land a seaplane on a lake.
2. Informal. To cause to arrive in a place or condition: Civil disobedience will land you in jail.
3. 1. To catch and pull in (a fish): landed a big catfish.
   2. Informal. To win; secure: land a big contract.
4. Informal. To deliver: landed a blow on his opponent's head.

1. 1. To come to shore: landed against the current with great difficulty.
   2. To disembark: landed at a crowded dock.
2. To descend toward and settle onto the ground or another surface: The helicopter has landed.
3. Informal. To arrive in a place or condition: landed at the theater too late for the opening curtain; landed in trouble for being late.
4. 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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A non-indented area on an optical medium such as a CD-ROM or DVD disc. Contrast with pit.

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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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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. air rights may be limited to some defined altitude. Added improvements are distinguished from land.

Extent of Land Ownership

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.

noun

1. An organized geopolitical unit: body politic, country, nation, polity, state. See politics, territory.
2. Usually extensive real estate: acre (often used in plural), estate, property. See owned/unowned.

verb

1. To come ashore from a seacraft: debark, disembark. See move/halt.
2. To come to rest on the ground: alight¹, light², set down, settle, touch down. See move/halt.
3. 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.

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.

Broadly, any ground, soil, or earth. More specifically, the term refers to real estate orreal 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.

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!
                                                                 Dodle

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

See more famous quotes about Land

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). 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 desposits, has historically been the cause of much conflict and dispute; land reform programmes, 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

• Natural resource

References

• Anthony C. Fisher (1987). "Natural resources," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 3, pp. 612-14.

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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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