homesteading

home·stead  (hmstd)

n.

1. A house, especially a farmhouse, with adjoining buildings and land.

2. Law Property designated by a householder as the householder's home and protected by law from forced sale to meet debts.

3. Land claimed by a settler or squatter, especially under the Homestead Act.

4. The place where one's home is.

v. home·stead·ed, home·stead·ing, home·steads

v.intr.

To settle and farm land, especially under the Homestead Act.

v.tr.

To claim and settle (land) as a homestead.

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homesteader n.

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homesteading [ˈhəʊmˌstɛdɪŋ]

n (in Britain)

(Social Welfare)

a.  a scheme whereby council tenants are enabled to buy derelict property from the council and renovate it with the aid of Government grants

b.  (as modifier) a homesteading scheme