tract home

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tract home (plural tract homes)

  1. (US) A tract house.
    • 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age : A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 63:
      True, there were a dismaying number of these in Rockland County, and each year brought more as high-rise condominiums and $2 million tract homes were being constructed along the scenic river or gouged out of rolling farmland.
    • 2002 April 20, Joseph Kahn, “San Fernando Valley Looks To a Life After Los Angeles”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      They were referring, of course, to that vast expanse of tract homes and backyard barbecues that is the San Fernando Valley.