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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.
EXPANDa 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.
COLLAPSEObsolete. 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 followed 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.
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Farms
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verb (used without object)
Verb phrase16.
to cultivate the soil; operate a farm.
17.
Idiomfarm 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), especially by subcontract on land owned or leased by another.
18.
buy the farm, Slang. to die or be killed.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English ferme lease, rented land, rent < Anglo-French, Old French < Vulgar Latin *ferma, derivative of *fermāre, for Latin firmāre to make firm, confirm. See firm1
1250–1300; Middle English ferme lease, rented land, rent < Anglo-French, Old French < Vulgar Latin *ferma, derivative of *fermāre, for Latin firmāre to make firm, confirm. See firm1
Related forms
farm·a·ble, adjective
min·i·farm, noun
non·farm, adjective
pro·farm, adjective
su·per·farm, noun
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Word Origin & History
farm
c.1300, 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 early 14c.; that of "cultivated land" (leased or not) is 1520s.
EXPAND The verm, in its agricultural sense, is 1719. Original sense is retained in to farm out. 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.
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