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farm(noun)BrE / fɑːm / NAmE / fɑːrm / - an area of land, and the buildings on it, used for growing crops and/or keeping animals
- a 200-hectare farm
- a farm worker/labourer
- farm buildings/machinery
- to live/work on a farm
- the main house on a farm, where the farmer lives
- a place where particular fish or animals are bred
- to risk everything you have on an investment, a bet, etc.
- The company bet the farm on the new marketing model, only to find that it wasn’t successful.
Extra Examples- During the war, few men were left to work the farm.
- Farm incomes rose 11% last year.
- Farm produce, including fruit and corn, was their principal export.
- He had lived on that farm all his life.
- I was raised on a country farm.
- Local farm supply stores are expected to lose business.
- Republicans hope to pass the farm bill in the current fiscal year.
- She lives on the next farm.
- Ten model farms have been set up to showcase modern production methods.
- The 80-acre farm now operates around the clock.
- The EU has decided to cut farm subsidies.
- The area combines a working farm and a farming museum.
- The children had to work on the family farm.
- The farm economy was stable.
- The farm lies on the hills above the lake.
- The farmer’s wife runs the farm shop.
- The myth of happy and contented animals down on the farm is now far from the truth.
- The pigs are raised on factory farms.
- The police are investigating a fire at a farm near Whitby.
- Today, the farm sector employs about 3% of our workforce.
- We anticipate our overall farm production next year to be lower.
- a dairy farm producing gourmet cheeses
- a farm growing tobacco
- a poor farm family
- an Illinois farm town
- controversial plans to build a wind farm on the island
- farm products such as eggs and vegetables
- the EU farm policy
- the Kansas farm belt
- the US farm program for wheat
- the rolling farm country of central Kentucky
- village and farm life
- Critics say that fish farms generate high levels of disease and parasites.
- Many farm workers face low wages and poor working conditions.
- The two disused farm buildings have stood empty since we took over the farm ten years ago
- a fish/trout/mink/pig farm
Word Origin- Middle English: from Old French ferme, from medieval Latin firma ‘fixed payment’, from Latin firmare ‘fix, settle’ (in medieval Latin ‘contract for’), from firmus ‘constant, firm’; compare with firm (noun). The noun originally denoted a fixed annual amount payable as rent or tax; which later gave rise to ‘to subcontract’ (farm somebody/something out to somebody. ). The noun came to denote ‘a lease’, and, in the early 16th cent., ‘land leased for farming’.
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