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noun
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a specific area or piece of such ground.
3.
grass or other plants for feeding livestock.
verb (used with object)
4.
to feed (livestock) by putting them out to graze on pasture.
5.
(of land) to furnish with pasture.
6.
(of livestock) to graze upon.
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verb (used without object)
Idiom7.
(of livestock) to graze in a pasture.
8.
put out to pasture,
a.
to put in a pasture to graze.
b.
to dismiss, retire, or use sparingly as being past one's or its prime: Most of our older employees don't want to be put out to pasture.
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Word Origin & History
pasture
c.1300, from O.Fr. pasture "grass eaten by cattle," from L.L. pastura "a feeding, grazing," from L. pastus, pp. of pascere "to feed, graze" (see pastor).
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