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Rural occupation
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farming
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Word definitions for farming in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a farming community ▪ a small farming community of about 1,000 inhabitants a farming method ▪ Farming methods have changed a lot over the last 100 years. factory farming fur farming (= keeping and killing animals for ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Farm \Farm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Farmed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Farming .] To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds. We are enforced to farm our royal realm. --Shak. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock [syn: agriculture , husbandry ] working the land as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more" [syn: land ]
Usage examples of farming.
The first occupation to suffer seriously because of the Africans oul ere was farming.
One of the strongest impressions I had gained when I first came into country practice was that farming was the hardest way of all of making a living, and now I was finding out for myself.