soil bank

1. 1.

   land retired from crop cultivation and planted with soil-building crops; government subsidies are paid to farmers for their retired land

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Questions about soil bank

What does soil bank mean?

soil bank means "land retired from crop cultivation and planted with soil-building crops; government subsidies are paid to farmers for their retired land".

Is soil bank a common word?

soil bank is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.