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Meanings of controlled burn in English
A fire set intentionally for purposes of forest or land management, farming, prairie restoration or greenhouse gas abatement.
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Examples for "burn-off"
Examples for "burn-off"
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Both fires were said to be caused burn-offs that got out of control.
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So, how expensive is it to do a prescribed burn?
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Compared to not doing the prescribed burn?
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It is getting harder to find enough days for safe hazard reduction burning.
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He acknowledged that hazard reduction burning was not popular with a large cross-section of society but said it was necessary.
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Climate change, hazard reduction burning, stay or go policies, local planning and arson are but some of the issues involved.
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Yesterday, the Country Fire Authority's chief officer Steve Warrington admitted the issue of hazard reduction burning was becoming an emotional one.
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Aside from not being in power, the Greens don't have anything in their policies to say they're against hazard reduction burning.
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A back-fire is a fire started for the purpose of stopping another.
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If his trail-break was built in time, Dave meant to back-fire above it.
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He had already run a little back-fire to protect the tents and the chuck-wagon.
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Sounded as though there was a tremendous back-fire, or else the muffler blew up.
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Dave did not dare back-fire on account of the wind.
Usage of controlled burn in English
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I flew here from the U.S. due to controlled burn of fire.
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A controlled burn is held on the giant oil slick.
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There could also be pre-emptive controlled burn-offs of some areas to bring safety to other areas.
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A controlled burn had injected the "ditch" with a dark, caustic, and apocalyptic haze.
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Officials plan a controlled burn to remove oil from the open water, the first since April 28.
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Some called it a controlled burn to prevent much of the world from going up in flames.
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EARLIER: MOUNTAIN bike trails are being evacuated around St Helens after a controlled burn-off jumped containment lines.
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A " controlled burn," they called it, although what it really amounted to was grown men having fun.
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This was a controlled burn.
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DOC added its policy allowed in principle for controlled burn-offs of dangerous areas in limited circumstances, but further research was needed.
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Smoke billows from a controlled burn of spilled oil off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico, June 13, 2010.
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Smoke billows from a controlled burn of spilled oil off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico coast line June 13, 2010.
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