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The word 'homestead' is correct and commonly used in written English
It can be used as a noun or a verb. As a noun, 'homestead' refers to a house and the land surrounding it, often used for farming or as a permanent residence. Example: "The family's homestead has been in their possession for generations." As a verb, 'homestead' means to establish a home on a piece of land or to acquire land through a government program. Example: "The couple decided to homestead on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean."
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Homestead
verb
To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.
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His state of the nation address last Thursday descended into chaos and fisticuffs when armed security were called to remove the opposition Economic Freedom Fighters EFFF) after they raised questions over lavish public spending on Zuma's rural homestead.
Racing still drives Hamlin, as an emotional display in victory lane at Homestead last November made clear.
Explore the marae (homestead) of Maori chef Charles Royal, staying with his whanau (family) on the coast at Te Kaha, near Rotorua.
Sammy the demolition man (Who flattened the poet's house In Ashley Avenue, its roof Crashing into that homestead, Then all the floors, poetry And conversation collapsing) Slices the sawdusty tons, Wooden manhole-covers, An imagined underground.
Several were looking into allegations that taxpayers had footed more than their share of the bill for a 246m-rand ($21m) "security" upgrade to the president's palatial private homestead, known as Nklandla, in the hills of KwaZulu Natal.
The public protector, who looks into public-sector misconduct, is investigating reports that hundreds of millions of rand are to be spent on improving Mr Zuma's private homestead in the village of Nkandla.Because the stakes are so high, competition for power is bitter and sometimes bloody, particularly at the local level.
ReprintsNow 83 and living in a modest homestead in central Kenya, in the heartland of the Kikuyus who made up the Mau Mau, she says she is still waiting for the benefits of independence.
This has allowed Michelle White, of the University of California at San Diego, to study what happens when bankruptcy rules remain the same, but the cost to the borrower changes.In one paper*, written with Jeremy Berkowitz of the University of Houston, she studies the effect of raising the "homestead exemption", which shields a debtor's home from creditors, on small businesses.
Samuel McCaughey, a former owner, built a magnificent homestead there in the 1880s, when everything arrived on paddle steamers from the coast 1,000km (600 miles) away.
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(3) Southern limestone soils occur in the Kissimmee valley, the Big Cypress Swamp, and the Miami-Homestead area.
About 2,000 people a year visit it, not bad for an out-of-the-way newcomer.In Durham, North Carolina's state government runs a museum that preserves the Duke Homestead, the site of the tiny factory where Washington Duke, a discharged Confederate soldier, set up the enterprise that would eventually become the gargantuan American Tobacco Company.
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