Agricultural means involving or relating to agriculture.
...agricultural land.
...corn and other agricultural products.
2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
An agricultural place or society is one in which agriculture is important or highly developed.
...traditional agricultural societies.
Synonyms: farming, country, rural, rustic More Synonyms of agricultural
Examples of 'agricultural' in a sentence
agricultural
With what do we replace the common agricultural policy?
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
There is also the complete absence of inheritance tax on agricultural land and on certain business assets.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
It would take a special kind of stupidity to replace the common agricultural policy with something more damaging.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
His parents were traders, buying and selling livestock and agricultural goods.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It will not all be one way: outside the common agricultural policy food imports from non-EU countries should be cheaper.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
At the moment, farmers receive a subsidy payment per acre from the EU under the common agricultural policy.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
It seeks applicants with a knowledge of good agricultural practice.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The rise of new classes of merchants and artisans led to new contradictions in agricultural society.
Appelbaum, Richard P. Sociology (1995)
Norway does not take part in the common agricultural or fisheries policies or the customs union.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The animal is under threat of extinction in the wild as its forest habitat is destroyed to make way for agricultural land.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
We could do a much better job of running these programmes ourselves once we are free of horrors like the common agricultural policy.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Contrary to reports, he did not make the abolition of the common agricultural policy a condition.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
British farmers receive subsidies of well over 2.5billion a year under the common agricultural programme.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Mr Xi will find that it is ten times more difficult to run an industrial society than an agricultural one.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Which we may do already, actually, as part of the common agricultural policy.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The annual loss of agricultural land currently averages 50 000 ha.
Cloke, Paul J (ed) Rural Land-Use Planning in Developed Nations (1989)
Southern Australia suffered continued intense heat and drought, hitting its important agricultural regions particularly hard.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Unlike an agricultural society, which can be rather precisely defined, civilization is a more subjective construct.
Stearns, Peter N. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity (1995)
In one example of an agricultural society, a farmer tills part of the very limitedland in Nepal flat enough to sustain agriculture.
Appelbaum, Richard P. Sociology (1995)
He proposes that this area would not involve agreement to the common agricultural policy, common foreign and security policy, justice or home affairs.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
While returns on other investments have slowed during the economic downturn, agricultural land has increased in value by 202% over the past decade.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The need to protect agricultural land was neatly allied with the radical planning fervour of the 1930s and 1940s to check the spread of urban areas.
Cloke, Paul J (ed) Rural Land-Use Planning in Developed Nations (1989)
In other languages
agricultural
British English: agricultural /ˈæɡrɪˌkʌltʃərəl/ ADJECTIVE
Agricultural means involving or relating to agriculture.
...agricultural research.
American English: agricultural
Arabic: زِرَاعِيّ
Brazilian Portuguese: agrícola
Chinese: 农业的
Croatian: poljoprivredni
Czech: zemědělský
Danish: landbrugs-
Dutch: agrarisch
European Spanish: agrícola
Finnish: maatalous-
French: agricole
German: landwirtschaftlich
Greek: γεωργικός
Italian: agricolo
Japanese: 農業の
Korean: 농업의
Norwegian: landbruks-
Polish: rolniczy
European Portuguese: agrícola
Romanian: agricol
Russian: сельскохозяйственный
Latin American Spanish: agrícola
Swedish: jordbruks-
Thai: ที่เกี่ยวกับเกษตรกรรม
Turkish: tarımsal
Ukrainian: сільськогосподарський
Vietnamese: thuộc nông nghiệp
All related terms of 'agricultural'
agricultural show
a display of agricultural equipment and livestock , often including competitions , entertainment , and a trade fair
agricultural college
a college of further education where students learn farming skills
agricultural engineer
an engineer who specialises in the design, development, and installation of agricultural and forestry machinery and advises on rural development and the management of natural resources
agricultural produce
Produce is food or other things that are grown in large quantities to be sold.
agricultural worker
a person who is employed in agriculture , usually a manual worker
agricultural productivity
Productivity is the rate at which goods are produced.
agricultural revolution
A revolution in a particular area of human activity is an important change in that area.
agricultural run-off
the portion of rainfall that runs over agricultural land and then into streams as surface water rather than being absorbed into ground water or evaporating
Common Agricultural Policy
Civil Air Patrol
International Fund for Agricultural Development
an agency of the United Nations that is dedicated to eradicating rural poverty in developing countries