farm /färm/

1. A tract of land (orig one leased or rented) used for cultivation and pasturage, along with a house and other necessary buildings
2. A farmhouse
3. A farmstead
4. A piece of land or water used for breeding animals (eg mink farm or oyster farm)
5. A place for treatment and disposal (eg sewage farm)
6. A place where people are handed over to be taken care of (eg baby farm)
7. A fixed payment (obsolete)
8. A lease (Spenser)
9. A fixed payment by way of taxes, etc (historical)
10. The letting out of the right to collect rents, taxes, etc in exchange for a fixed sum (historical)

Of, belonging to, appropriate to, a farm

1. To cultivate
2. To rear (animals) for sale
3. To use as a farm
4. To arrange for maintenance of at fixed price
5. To grant or receive the rents, taxes, etc from for a fixed sum
6. To rent to or from another person

To practise the business of a farmer

farmˈable adjective

farmed adjective

(of animals, esp fish) reared on a farm rather than wild

farmˈer noun

1. A person who farms land
2. The tenant of a farm
3. A person who receives taxes, etc in return for fixed payment

farˈmeress noun (rare)

A female farmer

farmˈery noun

The buildings of a farm

farmˈing noun

The business of cultivating land

farmer general noun

A member of a group who, in pre-Revolutionary France, had bought the right to receive certain taxes

Farmer Giles plural noun (Brit and Aust rhyming sl)

Piles, haemorrhoids

farmer’s lung noun

A lung disease caused by the spores of the fungus actinomycetes which develop in hay baled while it is still damp

farmers’ market noun

A market where food producers sell their products directly to local consumers

farm'-gate' price noun

The average price received for a food product by its producer

farm hand or farm labourer noun

A person who works on a farm for wages

farmˈhouse noun

The farmer's house attached to a farm

farmhouse loaf noun

An oval or rectangular loaf of white bread with a rounded top

farmˈ-in adjective (economics)

Acquired by farming into (qv below) a company

farm'land noun

Land used for farming

farmˈ-offices plural noun

Outbuildings on a farm

farmˈ-place, farmˈstead, farm steading or (Scot) farmˈ-toun /-tŭn/ noun

A farmhouse with buildings belonging to it

farm team noun

A sports club run with the aim of developing players for a bigger club

farmˈyard noun

A yard or enclosure surrounded by farm buildings

buy the farm (US sl)

To die

farm into

To take shares in a company or concern (usu of a company obtaining an interest in another)

farm out

1. To board out for fixed payment
2. To give (eg work for which one is responsible) to others to carry out or take care of

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