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Market garden

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market garden

–noun
1. a garden or farm for growing vegetables to be shipped esp. to local or nearby markets. Compare truck farm.
2. British. truck farm.
3. (initial capital letters) Military. the Allied code name for the unsuccessful invasion of Holland by British and American airborne and infantry forces on September 17, 1944.

Origin:
1805–15


market gardener, noun
market gardening, noun

truck farm

–noun
a farm for the growing of vegetables for the market.
Also called truck garden; especially British, market garden.


Origin:
1865–70, Americanism


truck farmer, noun
truck farming, noun
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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market garden  
n.  A garden in which vegetables are grown for sale in a market.
market gardener n., market gardening n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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