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farm
has definitions from the fields of work,agriculture,food
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[ noun ] (work,agriculture) workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit
Examples "it takes several people to work the farm" Used in print (Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)To be eligible to borrow from a Bank_for_Cooperatives , a cooperative must be an association in which farmers act together in processing and marketing farm products , purchasing farm supplies , or furnishing farm business services , and must meet the requirements set_forth in the Farm_Credit_Act_of_1933 , as amended . To be eligible to borrow from a Bank_for_Cooperatives , a cooperative must be an association in which farmers act together in processing and marketing farm products , purchasing farm supplies , or furnishing farm business services , and must meet the requirements set_forth in the Farm_Credit_Act_of_1933 , as amended . To be eligible to borrow from a Bank_for_Cooperatives , a cooperative must be an association in which farmers act together in processing and marketing farm products , purchasing farm supplies , or furnishing farm business services , and must meet the requirements set_forth in the Farm_Credit_Act_of_1933 , as amended . (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)During the following week , six tons of hay belonging to one rancher were burned ; some buildings , farm tools , two horses , plows , and hay owned by Bonito_Lavato , a friendly interpreter for the company , and Pedro_Chavez ' hay were stolen or destroyed ; and a store was broken into and robbed . (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)`` How ya gonna keep ' em down on the farm '' ? |
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[ verb ] (work,agriculture) be a farmer; work as a farmer
Examples "My son is farming in California" Used in print (Orlin J. Scoville, Part-Time Farming...)The high cost of land , supplies , and labor make it difficult to farm profitably on a part-time basis . If you are going_to farm for extra cash income on a part-time basis you must keep in mind the needed machinery investments when you choose among farm enterprises . (Gene Caesar, Rifle for Rent....)He had n't even pretended to be farming his spread . The small half-heartedly tended fields of men who 'd spent more time rustling cattle than farming were lying fallow . |
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[ adjective ] (agriculture) found on a farm
Examples "farm animals" "a farm hand" Used in print (Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)Simultaneously we should be underlining the interrelationships of technical progress in various fields , showing how agricultural training can be introduced into education , how health affects labor productivity , how small business can benefit the rural farm community , and , above_all , how progress in each field relates to national progress . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)Abel sat and regarded the farm country which , spreading_out from both sides of the road , rolled greenly up to where the silent white houses and long barns and silos nested into the tilled fields . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (food,agriculture) cultivate by growing; often involves improvements by means of agricultural techniques
Examples "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines" "They produce good ham in Parma" "We grow wheat here" "We raise hogs here" Related terms cultivate overproduce carry keep farming farmer farming agriculturist |
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