land poor

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

more land poor 比较级 most land poor 最高级

别名

land-poor

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    In a condition of poverty as a result of inability to meet tax payments or other financial requirements for one's land holdings.

    美国 习语

    Altho' most of the planters were "land poor" and burdened by the heavy taxes of "Reconstruction," and altho' many Negroes, having abandoned hope of "forty acres and a mule" from the Federal Government, were now ready to buy ten acres and an ox, the sale of land to Negroes was generally reprobated.