homestead

noun

1. ☆ a place where a family makes its home, including the land, house, and outbuildings
2. Law such a place occupied by the owner and his family and exempted from seizure or forced sale to meet general debts
3. ☆ a tract of public land (160 acres by the of 1862) granted by the U.S. government to a settler to be developed as a farm

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transitive verb