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farm

  [fahrm]
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–noun
1. a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
2. land or water devoted to the raising of animals, fish, plants, etc.: a pig farm; an oyster farm; a tree farm.
3. a similar, usually commercial, site where a product is manufactured or cultivated: a cheese farm; a honey farm.
4. the system, method, or act of collecting revenue by leasing a territory in districts.
5. a country or district leased for the collection of revenue.
6. a fixed yearly amount accepted from a person in view of local or district taxes that he or she is authorized to collect.
7. a tract of land on which an industrial function is carried out, as the drilling or storage of oil or the generation of electricity by solar power.
8. English History.
a. the rent or income from leased property.
b. the condition of being leased at a fixed rent; possession under lease; a lease.
9. Also called farm team, farm club. Chiefly Baseball. a team in a minor league that is owned by or affiliated with a major-league team, for training or keeping players until ready or needed.
10. Obsolete. a fixed yearly amount payable in the form of rent, taxes, or the like.
–verb (used with object)
11. to cultivate (land).
12. to take the proceeds or profits of (a tax, undertaking, etc.) on paying a fixed sum.
13. to let or lease (taxes, revenues, an enterprise, etc.) to another for a fixed sum or a percentage (often fol. by out).
14. to let or lease the labor or services of (a person) for hire.
15. to contract for the maintenance of (a person, institution, etc.): a county that farms its poor.
–verb (used without object)
16. to cultivate the soil; operate a farm.
—Verb phrase
17. farm out,
a. to assign (work, privileges, or the like) to another by financial agreement; subcontract; lease: The busy shipyard farmed out two construction jobs to a smaller yard.
b. to assign the care of (a child or dependent person) to another: She farms her elderly aunt out to a retired nurse during the workweek.
c. Chiefly Baseball. to assign (a player) to a farm.
d. to exhaust (farmland) by overcropping.
e. to drill (oil or gas wells), esp. by subcontract on land owned or leased by another.
—Idiom
18. buy the farm, Slang. to die or be killed.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME ferme lease, rented land, rent < AF, OF < VL *ferma, deriv. of *fermāre, for L firmāre to make firm, confirm. See firm 1

Related forms:
farm⋅a⋅ble, adjective
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buy   (bī)   
v.   bought (bôt), buy·ing, buys

v.   tr.

  1. To acquire in exchange for money or its equivalent; purchase. See Regional Note at boughten.

  2. To be capable of purchasing: "Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy" (Ogden Nash).

  3. To acquire by sacrifice, exchange, or trade: wanted to buy love with gifts.

  4. To bribe: tried to buy a judge.

  5. Informal To accept the truth or feasibility of: The officer didn't buy my lame excuse for speeding.

v.   intr.
To purchase something; act as a purchaser.
n.  

  1. Something bought or for sale; a purchase.

  2. An act of purchasing: a drug buy.

  3. Something that is underpriced; a bargain.

  4. To acquire a stake or interest in: bought into a risky real estate venture.

  5. Informal To believe in, especially wholeheartedly or uncritically: couldn't buy into that brand of conservatism.

Phrasal Verb(s):
buy into

  1. To acquire a stake or interest in: bought into a risky real estate venture.

  2. Informal To believe in, especially wholeheartedly or uncritically: couldn't buy into that brand of conservatism.

buy offTo bribe (an official, for example) in order to secure improper cooperation or gain exemption from a regulation or legal consequence.
buy outTo purchase the entire stock, business rights, or interests of.
buy upTo purchase all that is available of.

Idiom(s):
buy it Slang To be killed.

Idiom(s):
buy timeTo increase the time available for a specific purpose: "A moderate recovery thus buys time for Congress and the Administration to whittle the deficit" (G. David Wallace).

Idiom(s):
buy the farm Slang To die, especially suddenly or violently.

[Middle English, from Old English bycgan.]
buy'a·ble adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
buy the farm

  1. tv.
    to die; to get killed. (The farm may be a grave site. No one knows the origin.) : I'm too young to buy the farm.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

farm  (n.)
1297, from O.Fr. ferme "lease," from M.L. firma "fixed payment," from L. firmare "to fix, settle, confirm, strengthen," from firmus "firm" (see firm (adj.)). Sense of "tract of leased land" is first recorded 1334; that of "cultivated land" (leased or not) is 1523. The v., in its agricultural sense, is 1719. Original sense is retained in to farm out. Farmer (1599) replaced native churl, husbandman. Phrase buy the farm "die in battle," is at least from World War II, perhaps a cynical reference to the draftee's dream of getting out of the war and going home, in many cases to a peaceful farmstead. But fetch the farm is prisoner slang from at least 1879 for "get sent to the infirmary," with reference to the better diet and lighter duties there.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

buy the farm

see under buy it.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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