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[FAL-oe] 
adjective
1. left unseeded during a growing season, especially after being plowed; as 'fallow ground'
2. currently undeveloped or inactive, but having the potential for future activity or utility: "Two days after their tragic defeat, their stadium, so recently alive with thousands of rapturous supporters, assumed its fallow, off-season station by the bay."
noun
3. land that is left unseeded during a growing season, especially after being plowed
4. the act of plowing land and leaving it unseeded during a growing season
5. the condition or period of time when land is left unseeded
transitive verb
6. to plow, as land, without seeding
7. to plow and till, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects
additional noun form: fallowness
Origin:
Probably before 1300; from Middle English, 'falow,' 'falwe,' from 'falen'; developed from Old English, 'fealg,' 'fealh': arable land, fallow land; cognate with East Frisian, 'falge': fallow, from 'falgen': to plow; from Middle High German, 'falgen': plow up. In action:
"Frustrated by the lack of religion and the dearth of spirituality in New York City, and animated by a peculiar mix of the Bible, Freud and the New Age, I went off in search of God in one spot where everyone said He'd be on a day that everyone said He'd be there: Rome on Christmas Eve. Now, I suppose I could have gone to Bethlehem, or Jerusalem, but I'd had enough of my ethnic Judaism and wasn't interested in plowing fields that felt fallow. Rome was where the church was. Rome was religion, and the pope was the conduit. It didn't matter to me that I wasn't Catholic. It didn't even matter to me that I wasn't Christian. I thought that God was non-denominational, and I thought that it would be easier to find Him in Rome than in New York."
Zachary Karabell. "Not finding God in Rome," Salon.com (December 23, 1998).
"For Heller, what is happening in the process of privatizing genetics research is much like the distribution of property in the former Soviet Union. The associate professor, an expert in property and international law, noticed something quite odd when he visited Russia and the other former republics: Scrap metal kiosks brimming with products lined sidewalks against a backdrop of empty storefronts. Obviously, entrepreneurs were running their businesses, but they weren't able to take advantage of the stores left bare by the exit of socialist-run firms.
The problem? In the transition from government-run stores to private business, no individual had a bundle of ownership rights. Instead, ownership of the storefronts was fragmented among workers' collectives, privatization agencies, and local, regional, and federal governments. So to get use of a storefront, a businessperson had to work out agreements with each of the owning parties, a process so wrought with bureaucracy and cost that it wasn't worth the effort. As a result, the storefronts lay fallow."
Kristi Coale. "Patents: Help or Hindrance?" Wired.com (May 15, 1998).
"For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild animals may eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard."
Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 23:10,11.
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