tract home

noun

A tract house.

Meanings

nountract home (plural tract homes)

plural tract homes

  1. USA tract house.

    They were referring, of course, to that vast expanse of tract homes and backyard barbecues that is the San Fernando Valley.

    2002 April 20, Joseph Kahn, “San Fernando Valley Looks To a Life After Los Angeles”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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    True, there were a dismaying number of these in Rockland County, and each year brought more as high-rise condominiums and $2 million tract homes were being constructed along the scenic river or gouged out of rolling farmland.

    2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age : A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 63

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