hectare

American

[hek-tair] / ˈhɛk tɛər /

Or hektare

noun

a unit of surface, or land, measure equal to 100 ares, are, or 10,000 square meters: equivalent to 2.471 acres. ha

hectare British

/ ˈhɛktɑː /

noun

ha. one hundred ares. 1 hectare is equivalent to 10 000 square metres or 2.471 acres

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Etymology

Origin of hectare

From French, dating back to 1800–10; hect-, are ²

Example Sentences

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Totalling approximately 150 million hectares, DRC's forests are prized by buyers of forest concessions -- some for logging, others for contested carbon-offset programmes.

From Barron's

Several dozen companies have had their permits revoked, and the government will reportedly hand management of around a million hectares of land to a state enterprise.

From Barron's

On 500 of these hectares, salad specialist, Cambridgeshire-based G's Fresh, runs its Senegalese subsidiary, West African Farms.

From BBC

More than 95 percent of its 30,000 members own less than a hectare of land.

From Barron's

Capacity is even an issue at the massive Bantar Gebang site, one of the world's largest open landfills, sprawling over more than 110 hectares.

From Barron's

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