| 单词 | factory farm |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfactory farm factory farm n. (a) a farm operated by a trading post; cf. sense 2a (now historical); (b) originally U.S. a farm organized on industrial lines, engaged in factory farming. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > other farms home farm1749 city farm1750 county farm1785 factory farm1824 bird farm1842 provision farm1846 spade-farm1848 bush-farm1851 poor farm1852 sewage farm1870 cacao farm1871 mixed farm1872 vertical farm1897 prison farm1961 nuplex1968 1824 W. Huggins Sketches India xix. 143 In managing zirrots or factory farms, a great number of hired ploughs and people are employed in the ploughing and weeding seasons. 1851 Vermont Chron. 23 Sept. 152/1 (heading) A factory farm... What may be done to render the practice of agriculture conformable to an exact and economic, and, it may be added, profitable, manufacture. 1890 A. Marshall Princ. Econ. I. iv. xi. 351 Our knowledge..would be much increased..if some private persons,..or co-operative associations, would make a few careful experiments of what have been called ‘Factory farms’. 1919 G. H. Lyman Story Mass. Comm. Public Safety v. iii. 335 In some cases factories established factory farms in order that supplies for their help might be produced near at hand. 1926 19th Cent. June 825 Factory-farms..can be multiplied or spread widely enough to affect the whole of British agriculture. 1972 H. Montefiore Doom or Deliverance? 18 Factory farms can cause pollution by their disposal of unwanted manure. 2013 D. Crosby Thou of Nature v. 85 A major factory farm that produces 4.5 million eggs each day for supermarkets. < as lemmas |
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