acre

IPA: ˈeɪkɝ

An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters.
(Chester, historical) An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
(informal, usually in the plural) A wide expanse.
(informal, usually in the plural) A large quantity.
(obsolete) A field.
(obsolete) The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yds (≈20 m) by 220 yds (≈200 m).
(obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
A port city in northern Israel, and the holiest city in the Baháʼí Faith.
A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Rio Branco
A surname.

Examples of "acre" in Sentences

We'll let 'em keep on building subdivisions until every last acre is gone.
Each acre is spoken for — this section in corn, that one in cotton, field corners in CRP.
Saskatchewan's tax burden per taxable acre is 21 % below that of Alberta and 37% below that of Manitoba.
Recognizing that 20/units an acre is a reasonable sustainability and affordability target is the first step.
"Recognizing that 20/units an acre is a reasonable sustainability and affordability target is the first step."
I have also become unconvinced that 8 units per acre is a good target, so I have proposed reducing this to 4 units per acre.
Its sugar tonnage per acre is the highest, its mountain beef-cattle the fattest, its rainfall the most generous without ever being disastrous.
$10.46 per acre; the product of the improved lands of the Free States was $26.68 _per acre_ and of the Slave States $11.55, while, _per capita_, the result was $131.48 to $70.56.
The glebe is * about 3! acres arable, of a good light foil, and about an acre of pafture and meadow, befides a garden J of an acre* The living, exchu five of the glebe, was formerly 36L 3 s. 7d.
Few people know that an acre is a chain times a furlong but in the US we like the term acre and we are used to it so take your French opinions and your metric system and . . . oops, sorry, got a little off track there.