farmnoun [ C ]
uk/fɑːm/us/fɑːrm/A1 an area of land, together with a house and buildings, used for growing crops and/or keeping animals as a business:
a dairy farm
farm animals
fresh farm produce
farm workers
She spent the summer working on a farm.
a place where a particular type of animal is kept in large numbers in order to be sold:
a sheep/fish farm
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- Our farm straddles the railway line.
- As agriculture became more capital intensive, many farm labourers moved to the towns and cities to look for work.
- The fertilizers and pesticides used on many farms are polluting the water supply.
- By closing the infected farms we're hoping to confine the disease to the north of the region.
- It was hard work on the farm but satisfying.
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Farms & ranches
- collective farm
- croft
- dairy farm
- estate
- farmhouse
- farmland
- farmstead
- fish farm
- grange
- nursery
- plantation
- ranch
- sheep station
- smallholding
- spread
- station
- tea garden
- truck farm
- vertical farm
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farmverb [ T ]
uk/fɑːm/us/fɑːrm/to use land for growing crops and/or keeping animals as a business:
The Stamfords have farmed this land for over a hundred years.
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Farming - general words
- agrarian
- agriculture
- arable
- corn earworm
- crop
- cultivate
- farming
- food security
- harrow
- homestead
- produce
- PYO
- rabi
- reap
- rick
- seed
- slash-and-burn
- subsistence farming
- the Agrarian Revolution
- thrash
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Phrasal verb(s)
farm sth out
farm sb out