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Meaning of tractor out | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To dismiss (a tenant, etc.) while replacing manual labour with tractors.

historical, transitive

Examples

“How is one to elucidate or scrutinize Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath with no reference to the Dust Bowl, the tractoring out of the Okies […]”

“But there was no place to go to farm or settle; the farms were being deserted, the big combines tractoring out the shacks and the little fields […]”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

tractored tractored out tractoring tractoring out tractorised tractorises