Definition of "land-poor" [land•-poor]

• Owning much unprofitable land but lacking the capital to improve or maintain it. (adjective)

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• "Seattle is an especially attractive place for brownfield redevelopment for a number of reasons, including that the land-poor Northwestern port city needs to reclaim abandoned properties to grow, said Mr. Williams, whose firm is also redeveloping brownfields in Denver and Parchment, Mich."
• ""As everyone knows, by the time Gerau de Pallars inherited his estate, the family was land-poor," said Ramon."
• "The redistribution of land mainly owned by white commercial farmers to the land-poor black majority has sparked an"