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agribusiness
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Word definitions for agribusiness in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1955, compound formed from agriculture + business .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Agribusiness is the business of agricultural production. The term was coined in 1957 by Goldberg and Davis. It includes agrichemicals , breeding , crop production ( farming and contract farming ), distribution, farm machinery , processing , and seed supply, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A lawyer by training, she scuffled with agribusiness over migrant workers and supervised the government crackdown on sweatshops. ▪ All too often, agribusiness is regulated from above. ▪ Archer Daniels Midland, agribusiness , ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. big business connected to agriculture, either owning or operating large scale farms, or catering to those who do.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a large-scale farming enterprise [syn: agriculture , factory farm ]
Usage examples of agribusiness.
City advocates could cry bloody murder if you took one position, while the agribusiness lobby would come after you if you took the other.
The agribusiness was thriving in that part of the state, and ever since the Copa de Oro Dam had been constructed in the late Sixties, the recreation dollars had been piling up, too.
From the start the center was funded by big polluters and trade associations representing the oil, chemical, auto, drug, agribusiness, and mining sectors with gripes against government regulations.
Jet-black Punjabis, for example, are prominent in the professions of central California - medicine, law, agribusiness and academia - oblivious to the fact that their hue is often darker than that of African-Americans.
We have already struck agreements with the appropriate agribusinesses for possible access to their land.
The agribusiness was thriving in that part of the state, and ever since the Copa de Oro Dam had been constructed in the late Sixties, the recreation dollars had been piling up, too.
They were not interested in agribusiness with huge combine harvesters and crop dusters.
Currently, a handful of agro-conglomerates are working to drive America's remaining small farmers off their land by systematically paying them less for their produce than it costs to grow, thus forcing them to get loans from the conglomerates' banks, assume mortgages, and undergo foreclosures and the sale of land to corporate-controlled agribusiness.
Currently, a handful of agro-conglomerates are working to drive America’s remaining small farmers off their land by systematically paying them less for their produce than it costs to grow, thus forcing them to get loans from the conglomerates’ banks, assume mortgages, and undergo foreclosures and the sale of land to corporate-controlled agribusiness.
Turkeys were not only high on the food chain but one of the more egregious examples of the vertical integration of agribusiness.