Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The commercial production of any plant (even horticultural) or animal which has an economic value: as, fruit-farming, perfumery-farming (growing flowers for extraction of perfumery-oils), ostrich-farming (for feathers), cat-farming (for fur), etc.
- noun The practice of letting or leasing taxes, revenue, etc., for collection.
- noun The business of collecting taxes. See
farm , transitive verb - noun The business of cultivating land, or employing it for the purposes of husbandry; agriculture; husbandry.
- Pertaining to farms or agriculture: as, farming tools.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming
- noun The business of cultivating land.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The business of
cultivating land, raising stocks etc. - adjective Pertaining to the
agricultural business. - adjective Raising livestock or fish.
- verb Present participle of
farm .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
- adjective relating to rural matters
- noun agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
Etymologies
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Examples
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Raisin farming is the single most labor-intensive activity in North America.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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Court documents say the group also used the term "farming" as code for terrorist attacks.
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Tuna farming is an established industry in Baja California, and is one of the fastest growing forms of aquaculture in the world today.
Overfishing in the Sea of Cortez: Are sustainable fish farms the solution? 2009
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Tuna farming is an established industry in Baja California, and is one of the fastest growing forms of aquaculture in the world today.
Overfishing in the Sea of Cortez: Are sustainable fish farms the solution? 2009
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Along the West Coast, Japanese immigrants had found the small niches, especially in farming, that white Americans had not exploited and become successful at them -- for instance, strawberry farming, which is extremely labor-intensive.
"THE WAR", OURS AND THEIRS -- PROPAGANDA AS BRAIN DAMAGE Maggie Jochild 2007
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Nikolai Petrovich told various anecdotes about what he called his farming career, talked about the forthcoming government measures, about committees, deputations, the need to introduce new machinery, etc.
Fathers and Sons 2003
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They had in our area, as I'm sure in a lot of other areas, what they call farming on halves.
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Population pressures, the dominance of corporations in "farming" and the insatiable thirst of dirty energy generation sources have strained our water availability and safety to extremes.
John DeCock: From Burning River to Burning Ocean, the Fight for Clean Water Continues John DeCock 2010
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Population pressures, the dominance of corporations in "farming" and the insatiable thirst of dirty energy generation sources have strained our water availability and safety to extremes.
John DeCock: From Burning River to Burning Ocean, the Fight for Clean Water Continues John DeCock 2010
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Population pressures, the dominance of corporations in "farming" and the insatiable thirst of dirty energy generation sources have strained our water availability and safety to extremes.
John DeCock: From Burning River to Burning Ocean, the Fight for Clean Water Continues John DeCock 2010
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