public land
noun
: land owned by a government
specifically
: that part of the U.S. public domain subject to sale or disposal under the homestead laws
Examples of public land in a Sentence
the management of public lands
The government will auction off 20 parcels of public land.
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Although previous plans for the same site would have eliminated the port altogether in order to build as many as 45,000 housing units, some have objected to any housing on this public land.
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Dan Goldman, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2025
Before leaving office, President Joe Biden opened public lands to data centers running on clean energy as a way to encourage its use for computing.
—The Editors, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2025
The federal government, and more specifically, the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM), manages public land, and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) manages public water.
—Sweta Chakraborty, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
More than half of the district is federal public land.
—Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2025
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Dan Goldman, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2025
Before leaving office, President Joe Biden opened public lands to data centers running on clean energy as a way to encourage its use for computing.
—The Editors, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2025
The federal government, and more specifically, the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM), manages public land, and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) manages public water.
—Sweta Chakraborty, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
More than half of the district is federal public land.
—Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for public land
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“Public land.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/public%20land. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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