"land poor" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter XV, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"I was offered a thousand acres, the other day, at twenty-five cents an acre,\" remarked the doctor. \"The owner is so land-poor that he can't pay the taxes.\"",
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          "ref": "1913, Jack London, chapter 18, in The Valley of the Moon:",
          "text": "[A]ll the rest of the surrounding land was owned by a Frenchman. . . . He was a land-miser. With no business capacity, old and opinionated, he was land poor, and it was an open question which would arrive first, his death or bankruptcy.",
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          "ref": "1924, Ambrose Elliott Gonzales, \"The Quest of the Land\" in The Captain: Stories of the Black Border (1972 reprint edition by Ayer Publishing), p. 111",
          "text": "Altho' most of the planters were \"land poor\" and burdened by the heavy taxes of \"Reconstruction,\" and altho' many Negroes, having abandoned hope of \"forty acres and a mule\" from the Federal Government, were now ready to buy ten acres and an ox, the sale of land to Negroes was generally reprobated."
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          "ref": "2011, Irene Brand, chapter 9, in Song of her Heart, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Most ranchers are land poor—lots of land, but not much money.",
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        "In a condition of poverty as a result of inability to meet tax payments or other financial requirements for one's land holdings."
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        "(US, idiomatic) In a condition of poverty as a result of inability to meet tax payments or other financial requirements for one's land holdings."
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          "word": "house poor"
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          "word": "land-poor"
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        "(US, idiomatic) In a condition of poverty as a result of inability to meet tax payments or other financial requirements for one's land holdings."
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