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单词 family farm
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family farm
4. Designating an enterprise owned or operated by members of a single family, as family business, family company, family farm, etc. Frequently (esp. in later use) associated with positive qualities such as personal service, traditional craftsmanship, honourable business practices, etc.
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1784 A. Wight Present State Husbandry in Scotl. III: Pt. i. 351 Mr Dundas is now withdrawing from extensive improvements, to confine himself to a family farm.
1859 J. G. Bertram Behind Scenes (ed. 2) xvii. 138 The family concern has been disrupted from some particular cause, such as the death of one of the firm, or the desertion of one or two of the daughters.
1888 Railway & Corporation Law Jrnl. 7 Jan. 14/2 A family company, whatever the expression means, does not limit its trading to the family circle. If it takes the benefit of the Act, it is bound by the Act as much as any other company.
1898 Cosmopolitan Aug. 387/1 An ancient family business of international usury.
1931 Times 28 Jan. 20/4 The Fried. Krupp A.G. at Essen, which is a purely family enterprise.
1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 12 Sept. 45/6 Family farms have been proved to more efficient—that is, to produce more output per acre—than corporate farms.
2006 K. W. Bender Moneymakers ii. 36 This tradition-steeped family company is one of the oldest private printers of banknotes in the world.
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