farm
农场,养殖场,养殖业,牧场
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Definitions
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- : a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- : land or water devoted to the raising of animals, fish, plants, etc.: a pig farm; an oyster farm; a tree farm.
- : a similar, usually commercial, site where a product is manufactured or cultivated: a cheese farm; a honey farm.
- : the system, method, or act of collecting revenue by leasing a territory in districts.
- : a country or district leased for the collection of revenue.
- : a fixed yearly amount accepted from a person in view of local or district taxes that he or she is authorized to collect.
- : a tract of land on which an industrial function is carried out, as the drilling or storage of oil or the generation of electricity by solar power.
- : a place or business that serves a specified type of client or customer: a fat farm; funny farms.
- : a business or place that turns out specified products or services in the manner of a factory; a mill: an online content farm.
- : English History. the rent or income from leased property.the condition of being leased at a fixed rent; possession under lease; a lease.
- : Also called farm team, farm club .Chiefly Baseball. a team in a minor league that is owned by or affiliated with a major-league team, for training or keeping players until ready or needed.
- : Obsolete. a fixed yearly amount payable in the form of rent, taxes, or the like.
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- : to cultivate.
- : to raise on land or in water.
- : to take the proceeds or profits of on paying a fixed sum.
- : to let or lease to another for a fixed sum or a percentage.
- : to let or lease the labor or services of for hire.
- : to contract for the maintenance of: a county that farms its poor.
- : to collect for a character’s use or to sell in the game’s virtual economy by repeatedly performing a task for a reward or killing an enemy for a dropped item: I farm crafting supplies just to sell them at the auction house.
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- : to cultivate the soil; operate a farm.
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- : farm out, to assign to another by financial agreement; subcontract; lease: The busy shipyard farmed out two construction jobs to a smaller yard.to assign the care of to another: She farms her elderly aunt out to a retired nurse during the workweek.Chiefly Baseball.to assign to a farm.to exhaust by overcropping.to drill, especially by subcontract on land owned or leased by another.
Phrases
- farm out
- buy it (the farm)
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
You can’t overlook the farm system that YouTube is building for content.
Vaccinating animals for their own health and for the protection of humans is commonly done on farms.
There’s a huge boom — lots of new chemicals, fertilizers, machinery, that make farms more productive.
The Miami Marlins, in the midst of a deep rebuild with what we project to be the second-worst run differential in the NL, have improved their farm system, which had been one of the worst in baseball.
Because you need a wider base to support a taller turbine, beyond a certain tower height, the bases are too wide to be driven from factory to wind farm.
They were just way too aggressive to try and maintain on a farm here,” says Gow of his “Nazi cows.
But they are serious: what large-scale fracking does is change small farm towns into industrial sites.
When Reid came on board, he had only leased part of the land to farm on; the deal did not include the house.
A land farm is the term used for a commercial operation where waste from oil and gas extraction is spread on top of the ground.
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons This novel won the literary Prix Femina Étranger.
The evening previous to his death he was walking about the farm, in the full possession of all his faculties of mind and body.
Van Twiller was himself a grower of the plant and had his tobacco farm at Greenwich.
Could this man, who had been sent out to take care of Indians, get back his San Pasquale farm for him?
We did plan a great trip—father and mother and Tim and I—we were going to England together when the farm showed a surplus.
The road led to an old fashioned, high gabled farm-house at the foot of the hill; the only tenement visible from that lonely spot.