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Commonage (Noun)

Meaning

Property held in common.

Classification

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession.

Examples

  • The community had traditionally used the land as a commonage for grazing their livestock, with no individual owning a specific plot.
  • For centuries, the residents of the village shared a large area of woodland as a commonage, relying on it for timber, fuel, and hunting.
  • Before the enclosure movement, much of the English countryside was designated as commonage, available for all locals to use for farming and livestock.
  • The small town had a long-standing system of commonage for the coastal fishing grounds, where anyone from the community could fish without restrictions.
  • Diverting attention from the increasingly heated issue of urbanization, the mayor refocused the city's planning policies on addressing the dwindling commonage lands on the city's outskirts.

Hypernyms

  • Belongings
  • Holding
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