WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
allow′able cut′, [Ecol.]
- Ecologythe amount of a natural resource, as grain or oil, that may be harvested or taken from the earth within a specified period, as limited by law for conservation. Also called allowable, permissible yield, prescribed cut.
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