stock farm

noun

1. a farm devoted to breeding livestock.

stock farm

noun

1. a farm on which livestock is bred

Other Word Forms

• stock farming noun
• stock farmer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of stock farm¹

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

The wickets of Duckett and Crawley necessitated a change of approach and Jacks was able to take stock, farm the strike, and ensure there was not a mad scramble in the dressing room.

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He pointed to the organic farmstand-oriented Elmwood Stock Farm outside Lexington, Kentucky, which can grow tomatoes and greens the whole year using tools like high tunnels, also known as hoop houses — greenhouse-like arches that shelter crops while still being partially open to the outdoors.

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Harris compares him to “an especially quick colt at the Palo Alto stock farm.”

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Harris suggests that “the Palo Alto Stock Farm was really in the business of intellectual property,” like a Google or Apple of equine genetics.

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Leland Stanford, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad and a governor of California, purchased the land where the tree stood in 1876 for his family home and his Palo Alto stock farm, where he later founded Leland Stanford Junior University.

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