free selection

noundated

Meaning

The 19th-century system in the Australian colonies under which settlers could choose and buy a block of Crown land, often on a pastoral run; also a block taken up this way. Historical.

Example

His grandfather took up a free selection on the edge of the squatter's run.

Origin

From the colonial land acts, beginning with New South Wales in 1861.

Variants

free selector

Nearby words

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freckle vulgarThe anus.
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Fred NerkAn imaginary ordinary person; any man in the street, used like 'Joe Bloggs'.
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Fremantle doctorThe cool south-westerly sea breeze that arrives on summer afternoons in Perth and Fremantle.
FrenchieA condom.
FreoFremantle, the port city next to Perth; also the Fremantle football club.

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