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 Definitions of slash-and-burn  [æʃ]  

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Definition of 'slash-and-burn' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) slash-and-burn
of or noting a method of agriculture in the tropics in which vegetation is felled and burned, the land is cultivated for a few years, then abandoned to the forest.

2.  slash-and-burn
unnecessarily destructive or extreme.

Etymology:  (1935–40)


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