FARM | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of farm in English farmnoun [ C ] uk /fɑːm/ us /fɑːrm/

farm noun [C] (AREA OF LAND)

Add to word list Add to word list 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 workerson a farm She spent the summer working on a farm.   Richard Newstead/The Image Bank/GettyImages a place where a particular type of animal is kept in large numbers in order to be sold: a sheep/fish farm

• 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.

Farms & ranches

• country estate
• croft
• dairy farm
• dairyman
• farmhouse
• farmland
• farmstead
• fish farm
• grange
• homestead
• kibbutz
• market garden
• non-cultivated
• non-farm
• nursery
• ranch
• smallholding
• spread
• superfarm
• tea garden

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farm noun [C] (BASEBALL TEAMS)

US a number of baseball teams that play below the highest level and are used to prepare young players for a team that plays at the highest level: We don't have any good pitchers down on the farm. He spent three years in the farm system of the Houston Astros. Baseball & rounders

• 1-2-3 inning
• ahead
• alley
• around the horn idiom
• at bat
• bomb
• curve
• heater
• hit the ball out of the park idiom
• hitting coach
• home plate
• home stand
• horsehide
• sac
• slugging percentage
• solo
• spitter
• split-fingered fastball
• splitter
• stretch

See more results » 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. Farming - general words

• agrarianism
• agricultural extension
• agroecology
• agroforestry
• cultivate
• emergence
• harrow
• harvesting
• homestead
• hungry gap
• hydroponic
• hydroponically
• reap
• the Agrarian Revolution
• thrash
• tillable
• tillage
• U-pick
• unharvested
• unsown

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Phrasal verbs

farm something out farm someone out (Definition of farm from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

farm | American Dictionary

farmnoun [ C ] us /fɑrm/ Add to word list Add to word list an area of land, esp. together with a house and other buildings, used for growing crops or keeping animals A farm can also be a place where a specific type of animal is raised in large numbers to be sold: a cattle/mink farm farmverb [ I/T ] us /fɑrm/ to use land for growing crops or keeping animals as a business: [ I/T ] Their family has farmed (this land) for three generations.

farming

noun [ U ] us /ˈfɑr·mɪŋ/

Phrasal verb

farm out something (Definition of farm from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

farm | Business English

farmnoun [ C ]   PRODUCTION uk /fɑːm/ us Add to word list Add to word list an area of land, usually with fields and buildings, used for raising animals and growing crops as a business: My family has worked on this farm for generations.farm building/machinery/equipment etc. Pieces of rusting farm equipment lay abandoned in the long grass.farm worker/labourer Farm workers' wages fell sharply towards the end of the century.a sheep/pig/dairy etc. farm His parents ran a small but profitable dairy farm. a place where fish or other animals are bred: a trout/fish/salmon etc. farm Animal Rights activists demonstrated outside a local puppy farm last weekend. See also cube farm factory farm truck farm wind farm farmverb [ I or T ]   PRODUCTION uk /fɑːm/ us to use land to grow crops, raise animals, etc.: This area has been farmed for thousands of years.

Phrasal verb

farm sth out (Definition of farm from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of farm

farm Farmers often prefer farm plans that provide a satisfactory level of security even if this means sacrificing average income. From the Cambridge English Corpus Is the productivity of organic farms restricted by supply of available nitrogen? From the Cambridge English Corpus In peri-urban areas, land holds out the prospect of higher returns from realestate development than from farming. From the Cambridge English Corpus But farm size does not appear to explain differences in yields and net returns when the technology is adopted. From the Cambridge English Corpus This is under the assumption that farmers are risk neutral and that net farm returns () represent wealth. From the Cambridge English Corpus For all farm categories, current acreage increased from 5 years in the past, and farmers predicted further increases in the future. From the Cambridge English Corpus How might a lowland farm actually respond to the technical change? From the Cambridge English Corpus In short, technical change in lowland areas has significantly increased demand for labor on lowland farms. From the Cambridge English Corpus On the other hand, farmers without off-farm employment might have time to manage their systems intensively in order to achieve pesticide use reduction. From the Cambridge English Corpus Integrated farming - putting together systems for farm use. From the Cambridge English Corpus What made them dierent from the other farmers and how can this information be used in targeting participants for future on-farm projects? From the Cambridge English Corpus Pasture and forage improvement should be targeted to farming systems where high-value, labourintensive cropping is not an alternative option. From the Cambridge English Corpus As a simplified representation of the farm labour force, the farmer carries out tasks on both sows and batches. From the Cambridge English Corpus Thus, attributes of farm fields, and particularly the number of planted trees, are important determinants of household choices. From the Cambridge English Corpus Importantly, however, research also shows that even a small number of trees on a farm can have a measurable impact on species richness. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of farm These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations with farm

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cocoa farmThe activities that engaged the villagers' attention included keeping productive food-crop farms, organizing fishing expeditions, hunting, and cultivating cocoa farms. From the Cambridge English Corpus   coffee farmThe grounds, which feature original equipment from the coffee farm, are also available for touring. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.   commercial farmAll field operations were performed with commercial farm equipment17. From the Cambridge English Corpus   These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with farm What is the pronunciation of farm?

Translations of farm

in Chinese (Traditional) 農場, 飼養場，養殖場, 種植… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 农场, 饲养场，养殖场, 种植… See more in Spanish granja, criadero, cultivar… See more in Portuguese fazenda, cultivar, criar… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Russian in Arabic in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian शेत जमीन/ पशुपालन /उत्पादन केंद्र - पिके घेण्यासाठी आणि /किंवा पशुपालनासाठी घर किंवा इमारती असलेला जमिनीचा भाग… See more 農場, 耕作する, （家畜を）飼育する… See more çiftlik, çiftçilik/rençperlik yapmak, çiftlik (evi)… See more ferme [feminine], cultiver, élever… See more granja, conrear, criar… See more boerderij, het boerenbedrijf uitoefenen… See more ஒரு பகுதி நிலம், ஒரு வீடு மற்றும் கட்டிடங்களுடன் சேர்ந்து, பயிர்களை வளர்ப்பதற்கும் / அல்லது விலங்குகளை ஒரு வணிகமாக வைத்திருப்பதற்கும் பயன்படுத்தப்படுகிறது… See more कृषि भूमि, खेती… See more ખેતર, વાડી… See more landbrug, gård, gård-… See more lantbruk, jordbruk, farm… See more ladang, rumah peladang, berladang… See more der Bauernhof, bebauen… See more gård [masculine], bondegård [masculine], farm [masculine]… See more فارم،مکان اور عمارتوں کے ساتھ زمین کا ایک رقبہ جو کھیتی باڑی یا مویشیوں کے کاروبار کے لیے استعمال ہوتا ہو… See more ферма, селянське господарство, займатися фермерством… See more ферма, обрабатывать (землю), разводить (скот)… See more مَزْرَعة, يَزرَع… See more খামারবাড়ি, গোলাবাড়ি, শস্য উৎপাদন এবং পশুপালনের জন্যে একত্রে ব্যবহৃত হয় বাড়ি এবং ভবনগুলিসমেত কোনো জমির একটি এলাকা… See more farma, statek, selský… See more perladangan, rumah perladangan, berladang… See more ที่เพาะปลูกและเลี้ยงสัตว์, บ้านไร่, บ้านชาวนา… See more trại, trang trại, nhà ở trong trang trại… See more gospodarstwo, farma, uprawiać… See more 농장, 농사를 짓다, 동물을 사육하다… See more fattoria, coltivare, allevare… See more Need a translator?

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• truck farm
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• non-farm
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• wind farm

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• bet the farm/ranch idiom
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