单词 | agribiz |
释义 | agribizn. colloquial (originally U.S.). = agribusiness n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > farming industries agro-industry1907 agro-city1950 agribusiness1955 agrobusiness1958 agribiz1959 bioindustry1973 1959 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 3 July 15/2 (caption) Tickets for agri-biz day. 1977 Time 28 Nov. 111/3 Pretty soon Leroy finds himself in Los Angeles..working as a painter for an arm of the same agribiz octopus that chased him away from home. 1985 New Yorker 29 Apr. 62/3 Captains of agribiz and manufacturing. 1992 Daily Tel. 13 May 18/6 Consider for a moment what sort of countryside we have made in the last 40 years—one ravaged by agribiz, sterilised and poisoned,..marshes and woodlands destroyed. 2002 J. Clarke Coming back to Earth xiv. 255 Around the mid-20th century in Britain, farmers still practised crop rotation on a wide scale... Along came agribiz, as opposed to agriculture. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1959 |
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