Something to build on (5)

I believe the answer is:

tract

(Other definitions for tract that I've seen before include "Political pamphlet" , "Stretch of space or time" , "Lots of land" , "Religious treatise" , "lot of ground?" .)

I've seen this clue in the Newsday.

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