land poor
adjDefinitions
In a condition of poverty as a result of inability to meet tax payments or other…
In a condition of poverty as a result of inability to meet tax payments or other financial requirements for one's land holdings.
- "I was offered a thousand acres, the other day, at twenty-five cents an acre," remarked the doctor. "The owner is so land-poor that he can't pay the taxes."
- [A]ll the rest of the surrounding land was owned by a Frenchman. . . . He was a land-miser. With no business capacity, old and opinionated, he was land poor, and it was an open question which would arrive first, his death or bankruptcy.
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