Usually means: Land allotment for military service.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (cleruchy)

noun:  (historical, Ancient Greece) A form of Athenian colony in the time of Ancient Greece, under which the settlers or cleruchs retained their citizenship, and were assigned plots, or kleroi, of agricultural land, while the community remained a political dependency of Athens.

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