Meaning & use
plat
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A map or diagram showing the boundaries, divisions, and ownership of a piece of land.
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The county clerk pulled up the original plat before approving the new subdivision.
Surveyors filed a plat showing how the farmland would be split into smaller lots.
A note on using this word
Plat is chiefly a legal and real-estate term, most often encountered as "plat map" when land is being surveyed or subdivided.
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survey mapplot plan
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