English
Adjective
slash and burn (not comparable)
- Rough, coarse and lacking finesse, performed with little skill.
His slash and burn approach to management resulted in few friends and many enemies.
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Noun
slash and burn (uncountable)
- A technique in agriculture where plant matter is roughly cut down and then burned over to prepare fields for the next crop.
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technique
- Arabic: القطع والحرق
- Breton: gounidigezh war zevadur f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 焚林开垦, 刀耕火種 / 刀耕火种 (zh) (dāogēnghuǒzhòng)
- Czech: žďáření n
- Danish: svedjebrug n
- Dutch: brandlandbouw m, hakken en branden n
- Estonian: ale (et), alepõllundus
- Finnish: kaskiviljely (fi), kaskeaminen (fi)
- French: brûlis (fr) m, culture sur brûlis f
- Galician: roza f, estivada f, queima f
- German: Brandrodung (de) f, Schwenden n
- Italian: debbio (it) m, addebbiatura f
- Japanese: 焼畑農業
- Korean: 화전농업 (hwajeonnong'eop)
- Lithuanian: lydiminė žemdirbystė
- Norwegian:
- Nynorsk: bråtebruk
- Polish: gospodarka żarowa f, system ogniowy m inan
- Portuguese: coivara (pt) f
- Russian: подсе́чно-огнево́е земледе́лие n (podséčno-ognevóje zemledélije)
- Serbo-Croatian: posijeci i spali
- Spanish: roza y quema f, artigaje m
- Swedish: svedjebruk (sv) n
- Welsh: torri a llosgi
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Verb
slash and burn (third-person singular simple present slashes and burns, present participle slashing and burning, simple past and past participle slashed and burned or slashed and burnt)
- To apply the slash and burn technique.
We'll slash and burn this week and plant next.
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