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–noun

1.	the business of operating a farm.

2.	the practice of letting or leasing taxes, revenue, etc., for collection.

[Origin: 1545–55; farm + -ing¹

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n.

A tract of land cultivated for the purpose of agricultural production.
1. A tract of land devoted to the raising and breeding of domestic animals.
2. An area of water devoted to the raising, breeding, or production of a specific aquatic animal: a trout farm; an oyster farm.
3. The system of leasing out the rights of collecting and retaining taxes in a certain district.
4. A district so leased.
An area of land devoted to the storage of a commodity or the emplacement of a group of devices: a tank farm; an antenna farm.
Baseball A minor-league club affiliated with a major-league club for the training of recruits and the maintenance of temporarily unneeded players.
Obsolete
1. The system of leasing out the rights of collecting and retaining taxes in a certain district.
2. A district so leased.

v. farmed, farm·ing, farms

v. tr.

To cultivate or produce a crop on.
To pay a fixed sum in order to have the right to collect and retain profits from (a business, for example).
To turn over (a business, for example) to another in return for the payment of a fixed sum.

v. intr.
To engage in farming.

Phrasal Verb(s):
farm out

To send (work, for example) from a central point to be done elsewhere.
Baseball To assign (a player) to a minor-league team.

[Middle English, lease, leased property, from Old French ferme, from Medieval Latin firma, fixed payment, from Latin firmāre, to establish, from firmus, firm; see dher- in Indo-European roots.]

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farming
adjective
1.	relating to rural matters; "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities" [syn: agrarian]
noun
1.	the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
2.	agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more"

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ˈfarming noun

the business of owning or running a farm
Example: There is a lot of money involved in farming; (also adjective) farming communities

Arabic:	فِلاحَه، أعمال الزِّراعَه
Chinese (Simplified):	农业
Chinese (Traditional):	農業
Czech:	zemědělství, hospodářství; zemědělský, hospodářský
Danish:	det at drive landbrug; landbrugs-
Dutch:	boerenbedrijf;
Estonian:	talundus
Finnish:	maanviljely
French:	exploitation (agricole); rural
German:	die Landwirtschaft, landwirtschaftlich
Greek:	αγροκαλλιέργεια, γεωργία
Hungarian:	gazdálkodás
Icelandic:	búskapur
Indonesian:	pertanian
Italian:	coltivazione; agricoltura; allevamento rurale

Japanese:	農業
Korean:	농업, 농사
Latvian:	zemkopība; lauksaimniecība; zemkopības-; lauksaimniecības-
Lithuanian:	žemdirbystė, ūkininkavimas
Norwegian:	gårdsdrift, landbruk; jordbruks-, bygde-
Polish:	rolnictwo, hodowla
Portuguese (Brazil):	agricultura, lavoura
Portuguese (Portugal):	agricultura
Romanian:	exploatare (agricolă); rural
Russian:	фермерство
Slovak:	poľnohospodárstvo; poľnohospodársky
Slovenian:	kmetijstvo; kmetijski
Spanish:	agricultura; ganadería
Swedish:	lantbruk, jordbruk
Turkish:	çiftçilik

See also: farmer, farmhouse, farmyard, farm

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farming jargon
(From Adelaide University, Australia) What the heads of a disk drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the magnetic media during a head crash. Typically used as follows: "Oh no, the machine has just crashed; I hope the hard drive hasn't gone farming again."
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farming

n. [Adelaide University, Australia] What the heads of a disk drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the magnetic media. Associated with a crash. Typically used as follows: "Oh no, the machine has just crashed; I hope the hard drive hasn't gone farming again." No longer common; modern drives automatically park their heads in a safe zone on power-down, so it takes a real mechanical problem to induce this.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Farming

Farm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Farmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Farming.]

1. 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.

2. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes.

To farm their subjects and their duties toward these. --Burke.

3. To take at a certain rent or rate.

4. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.

To farm let, To let to farm, to lease on rent.

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Farming

Farm"ing\, a. Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community.

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