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county farm

American  

noun

  1. (especially formerly) a farm maintained by a county and used for the housing and care of poor people.


Etymology

Origin of county farm

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

Example Sentences

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State Farm's early offices were in a back room of the county farm bureau building.

From Time Magazine Archive

This year, with county farm income up by an estimated 7%, Livingston farmers seem to be standing even more firmly behind the flexible support policies of Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was at the county farm, but run away and got in with these fellows.

From Ralph of the Roundhouse by Allen Chapman

Her own were grown, and desiring to make a home for some homeless child, she went to the county farm, where there were several, in search of one.

From Children's Edition of Touching Incidents : and Remarkable Answers to Prayer by S. B. (Solomon Benjamin) Shaw

I want to know if you'd won't help me to get into the county farm during the winter months, anyhow.

From Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser

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