farm
a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
land or water devoted to the raising of animals, fish, plants, etc.: a pig farm;an oyster farm;a tree farm.
a site, usually commercial, where a product is manufactured or cultivated: a cheese farm;a honey farm.
the system, method, or act of collecting revenue by leasing a territory in districts.
a country or district leased for the collection of revenue.
a fixed yearly amount payment of money or goods, accepted in lieu of taxes owed.
a tract of land on which an industrial function is carried out, such as the drilling or storage of oil or the generation of electricity by solar power.
Informal: Often Disparaging and Offensive. a place or business that serves a specified type of client or customer: Sending people to so-called fat farms rarely increases their health.Gone are the days when inpatient mental health care was commonly referred to as the “funny farm.”
a business or place that turns out specified products or services in the manner of a factory; a mill: an online content farm.
English History.
the rent or income from leased property.
the condition of being leased at a fixed rent; possession under lease; a lease.
Also called farm team, farm club .Chiefly Baseball. a team in a minor league that is owned by or affiliated with a major-league team, for training or keeping players until ready or needed.
Obsolete. a fixed yearly amount payable in the form of rent, taxes, or the like.
to cultivate (land).
to raise (animals, fish, plants, etc.) on land or in water.
to take the proceeds or profits of (a tax, undertaking, etc.) on paying a fixed sum.
to let or lease (taxes, revenues, an enterprise, etc.) to another for a fixed sum or a percentage (often followed by out).
to let or lease the labor or services of (a person) for hire.
to contract for the maintenance of (a person, institution, etc.): The county farms its poor.
(in a video game) to collect (valuable items) for a character’s use or to sell in the game’s virtual economy by repeatedly performing a task for a reward or killing an enemy for a dropped item: I farm crafting supplies just to sell them at the auction house.
to cultivate the soil; operate a farm.
farm out,
to assign (work, privileges, or the like) to another by financial agreement; subcontract; lease: The busy shipyard farmed out two construction jobs to a smaller yard.
to assign the care of (a child or dependent person) to another: She farms her elderly aunt out to a retired nurse during the workweek.
Chiefly Baseball. to assign (a player) to a farm.
to exhaust (farmland) by overcropping.
to drill (oil or gas wells), especially by subcontract on land owned or leased by another.
Idioms about farm
buy the farm, Slang. to die or be killed.
Origin of farm
1Other words from farm
- farm·a·ble, adjective
- min·i·farm, noun
- non·farm, adjective
- pro·farm, adjective
- su·per·farm, noun
- un·farm·a·ble, adjective
- un·farmed, adjective
- well-farmed, adjective
Words Nearby farm
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How to use farm in a sentence
You can’t overlook the farm system that YouTube is building for content.
After years of ‘too much TV,’ the pandemic means there’s now barely enough | Aric Jenkins | August 27, 2020 | FortuneVaccinating animals for their own health and for the protection of humans is commonly done on farms.
Can Vaccines for Wildlife Prevent Human Pandemics? | Rodrigo Pérez Ortega | August 24, 2020 | Quanta MagazineThere’s a huge boom — lots of new chemicals, fertilizers, machinery, that make farms more productive.
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Ep. 386 Rebroadcast) | Stephen J. Dubner | August 6, 2020 | FreakonomicsThe Miami Marlins, in the midst of a deep rebuild with what we project to be the second-worst run differential in the NL, have improved their farm system, which had been one of the worst in baseball.
The Dodgers Lead Our National League Predictions, But Don’t Count Out The Nats Or … Reds? | Travis Sawchik | July 22, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightBecause you need a wider base to support a taller turbine, beyond a certain tower height, the bases are too wide to be driven from factory to wind farm.
GE Will 3D Print the Bases of Wind Turbines Taller Than Seattle’s Space Needle | Jason Dorrier | June 21, 2020 | Singularity Hub
They were just way too aggressive to try and maintain on a farm here,” says Gow of his “Nazi cows.
But they are serious: what large-scale fracking does is change small farm towns into industrial sites.
When Reid came on board, he had only leased part of the land to farm on; the deal did not include the house.
A land farm is the term used for a commercial operation where waste from oil and gas extraction is spread on top of the ground.
Two Texas Regulators Tried to Enforce the Rules. They Were Fired. | David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News | December 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCold Comfort farm by Stella Gibbons This novel won the literary Prix Femina Étranger.
These Female Contemporaries Weren’t Afraid of Virginia Woolf | Louisa Treger | November 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe evening previous to his death he was walking about the farm, in the full possession of all his faculties of mind and body.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellVan Twiller was himself a grower of the plant and had his tobacco farm at Greenwich.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.Could this man, who had been sent out to take care of Indians, get back his San Pasquale farm for him?
Ramona | Helen Hunt JacksonWe did plan a great trip—father and mother and Tim and I—we were going to England together when the farm showed a surplus.
The Soldier of the Valley | Nelson LloydThe road led to an old fashioned, high gabled farm-house at the foot of the hill; the only tenement visible from that lonely spot.
The World Before Them | Susanna Moodie
British Dictionary definitions for farm
/ (fɑːm) /
a tract of land, usually with house and buildings, cultivated as a unit or used to rear livestock
(as modifier): farm produce
(in combination): farmland
a unit of land or water devoted to the growing or rearing of some particular type of vegetable, fruit, animal, or fish: a fish farm
an installation for storage
a district of which one or more taxes are leased
history
a fixed sum paid by an individual or group for the right of collecting and retaining taxes, rents, etc
a fixed sum paid regularly by a town, county, etc, in lieu of taxes
the leasing of a source of revenue to an individual or group
a fixed tax, rent, etc, paid regularly
(tr)
to cultivate (land)
to rear (stock, etc) on a farm
(intr) to engage in agricultural work, esp as a way of life
(tr) to look after a child for a fixed sum
to collect the moneys due and retain the profits from (a tax district, business, etc) for a specified period on payment of a sum or sums
to operate (a franchise) under similar conditions
Origin of farm
1- See also farm out
Derived forms of farm
- farmable, adjective
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Other Idioms and Phrases with farm
In addition to the idiom beginning with farm
- farm out
also see:
- buy it (the farm)
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