land grant

1. 1.

   a grant of public land (as to a railway or college)

   Broadergrant

Questions about land grant

What does land grant mean?

land grant means "a grant of public land (as to a railway or college)".

Is land grant a common word?

land grant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.