inholding

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noun

A piece of privately-owned land inside the boundary of a national park, national forest, state park, or similar publicly-owned protected area.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nouninholding (plural inholdings)

plural inholdings

  1. A piece of privately-owned land inside the boundary of a national park, national forest, state park, or similar publicly-owned protected area.

    Thomas M. Daly, chief executive of the American Revolution Center, called the association’s concerns about inholdings a “specious argument.”

    2008 May 30, Jon Hurdle, “Fight Over Land Use at Valley Forge”, in New York Times
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of inhold

    O sirs, grace is not for inholding, but for outgiving; grace could not be grace if it were otherwise.

    1836, Ebenezer Erkine, Donald Fraser, “On the Throne of Grace”, in The Whole Works of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine, Minister of the Gospel at Stirling, W. S. & A. Young, page 248

Origin

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Chicago

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