acreage

[ ey-ker-ij ]

/ ˈeɪ kər ɪdʒ /

extent or area in acres; acres collectively.

a plot of land amounting to approximately one acre: They bought an acreage on the outskirts of town.

Origin of acreage

First recorded in 1855–60; acre + -age

He says, 'Everybody thinks that because I have a place in Montecito, I've got a big ranch and a lot of acreage.

Bruce Weber's 25th Anniversary of Let's Get Lost at the Venice Film Festival 2013 |Isabel Wilkinson |August 31, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
It starts on A1and takes up nearly half the acreage below the fold.

A1-Worthy Musical Deaths |Michael Tomasky |May 18, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
The acreage at Area 13 was fenced off with simple barbed wire.

America's Secret Nuclear Test Revealed in Area 51 |Annie Jacobsen |May 13, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
The production of cotton was slow and costly, the acreage therefore small, and the profits slender.

The Battle of Principles |Newell Dwight Hillis

The grants were often incompletely described, bounds uncertain and the acreage unknown.

A Report upon the Mollusk Fisheries of Massachusetts |Commissioners on Fisheries and Game
The acreage under permanent pasture and wood is very considerable.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 |Various
A slight reduction also took place in the acreage of pulses, but the area under rice expanded by 70 percent.

Area Handbook for Bulgaria |Eugene K. Keefe, Violeta D. Baluyut, William Giloane, Anne K. Long, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole
The race owns to-day an acreage equal to the combined acreage of Holland and Belgium.

Following the Color Line |Ray Stannard Baker

acreage

/ (ˈeɪkərɪdʒ) /

land area in acres

Australian of or relating to a large allotment of land, esp in a rural area