seasteading
/ˈsiˌstɛ.dɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.35 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The territorial sea offers a new realm for individual and small business enterprises. The Commission recommends an experimental program to encourage new uses of the ocean through State leases of submarine areas within U.S. territorial waters. Such a program might be called "seasteading.""
- "Benefits from the acquisition of this new territory include the development of tremendous oil and gas reserves, new mineral, chemical and pharmaceutical resources, fish farms and such things as “seasteading” by private companies […]"
- ""Seasteading" may one day assume the pioneering role in underwater colonization that homesteading played in past settlement of the grasslands of the American West."
- "We're a young American couple without much money who wanted to make the planet our village. Seasteading (self-sufficient boat living) was the answer."
- "The Raft was a seasteading community, a loose affiliation of over a hundred vessels that had been converted to floating farms and cities by climate refugees from small island nations that had been wiped out by rising waters."
- "For those of you looking to escape into international waters, there’s always seasteading to consider — modular, autonomous, voluntary city-states."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsiˌstɛ.dɪŋ/
- British English: /ˈsiː.stɛ.dɪŋ/