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farm⋅er
[fahr-mer]
–noun
| 1. | a person who farms; person who operates a farm or cultivates land. |
| 2. | an unsophisticated person from a rural area; yokel. |
| 3. | a person who undertakes some service, as the care of children or the poor, at a fixed price. |
| 4. | a person who undertakes the collection of taxes, duties, etc., paying a fixed sum for the privilege of retaining them. |
| 5. | Cards.
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| Farmer, James Leonard 1920-1999. American civil rights leader who founded the Congress of Racial Equality (1942), served as its national director (1961-1966), and advocated nonviolent forms of protest. |
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Farmer
Farm"er\, n. [Cf. F. fermier.] One who farms; as: (a) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. --Smart. (b) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman. (c) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues. (d) (Mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown. Farmer-general [F. fermier-general], one to whom the right of levying certain taxes, in a particular district, was farmed out, under the former French monarchy, for a given sum paid down. Farmers' satin, a light material of cotton and worsted, used for coat linings. --McElrath. The king's farmer (O. Eng. Law), one to whom the collection of a royal revenue was farmed out. --Burrill.
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Language Translation for : farmer
Spanish:
granjero, agricultor,
German:
der Landwirt,
Japanese:
農民
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