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How to pronounce acre in English?

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Synonyms accho, akka, akko
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Type of area unit, square measure

Examples of acre

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Difficulty is moderate as it meanders through a 484-acre oak and hickory forest.
From the desmoinesregister.com
Historian Louise Taper has put her 4.2-acre estate on the market at $18 million.
From the latimes.com
Find your way out of the seven-acre corn maze while searching for 12 map pieces.
From the charlotteobserver.com
He was stunned by the weight of his pumpkin, which he grew on his one-acre plot.
From the sfgate.com
No one pays $25 an acre to lease a patch of woods strictly for squirrel hunting.
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The nearly half acre of park-like grounds contain a saltwater pool and a studio.
From the latimes.com
All this apart, the 84-acre project is also allegedly an environmental disaster.
From the scoop.co.nz
An acre-foot is roughly enough to keep two homes supplied with water for a year.
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As the sun set, the winds began to die down and the 100-acre fire was contained.
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  • A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries
  • A territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru
  • A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean
  • (acres) estate: extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
  • The acre is a unit of area in a number of different systems, including the imperial and U.S. customary systems. The most commonly used acres today are the international acre and, in the United States, the survey acre. The most common use of the acre is to measure tracts of land.
  • Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) is a charity that acts as the national organisation for thiry-eight Rural Community Councils across England.
  • An Irish acre is a unit of area historically used in Ireland, Yorkshire, and regions bordering the Solway Firth.
  • Acre (/u02C8u0251u02D0ku0259r/ or /u02C8eu026Aku0259r/, Hebrew: u05E2u05B7u05DBu05BCu05D5u05B9, u02BBAkko, most commonly spelled as Akko; Arabic: u0639u0643u0651u0627u200Eu200E, u02BBAkku0101) is a city in the northern coastal plain region of the Northern District, Israel at the northern extremity of Haifa Bay. The city occupies an important location, as it sits on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, traditionally linking the waterways and commercial activity with the Levant...
  • The Acre River (called Aquiry in the local Iu00F1apari language; locally, Rio Acre) is a 680 kilometres (420u00A0mi) long river in central South America.