communal land

Frequency: 6.26.5 per million words

Land owned or used by a community as a whole.

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Examples (10)

  • The villagers graze their cattle on the communal land.
  • Many indigenous tribes are fighting to protect their ancestral communal land.
  • The dispute over the boundaries of the communal land has been ongoing for years.
  • Historically, the village's prosperity depended on the management of its communal land.
  • The new law recognizes the rights of local communities to their communal land.
  • A corporation is trying to acquire the communal land for development, causing protests.
  • Resources from the forest, considered communal land, are shared equally among families.
  • There are plans to reforest a large area of the communal land to prevent soil erosion.
  • Strict rules govern who can build on the tribe's communal land.
  • The eco-village was founded on the principle of shared resources, including communal land for gardening.