seasteading
noun/ˈsiː.stɛ.dɪŋ/UK/ˈsiˌstɛ.dɪŋ/US
Etymology
Blend of sea + homesteading, coined in a 1969 United States commission report (see quotations).
Definitions
The creation of permanent dwellings at sea, especially outside the territory claimed by…
The creation of permanent dwellings at sea, especially outside the territory claimed by any national government.
- Benefits from the acquisition of this new territory include the development of tremendous oil and gas reserves, new mineral, chemical and pharmaceutical resources, fish farms and such things as “seasteading” by private companies […]
- "Seasteading" may one day assume the pioneering role in underwater colonization that homesteading played in past settlement of the grasslands of the American West.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for seasteading. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA