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ranch

  [ranch]
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–noun
1. an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
2. Chiefly Western U.S. and Canada. a large farm used primarily to raise one kind of crop or animal: a mink ranch.
3. a dude ranch.
4. the persons employed or living on a ranch.
5. ranch house.
–verb (used without object)
6. to manage or work on a ranch.
Origin:
1800–10, Americanism; < Sp rancho rancho

Related forms:
ranchless, adjective
ranchlike, adjective
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ranch   (rānch)   
n.  
  1. An extensive farm, especially in the western United States, on which large herds of cattle, sheep, or horses are raised.
  2. A large farm on which a particular crop or kind of animal is raised: a mink ranch.
  3. A house in which the owner of an extensive farm lives.
intr.v.   ranched, ranch·ing, ranch·es
To manage or work on a ranch.

[American Spanish rancho, small farm, from Spanish, hut, group of people who eat together, from Old Spanish rancharse, to be billeted, from Old French se ranger, to be arranged, from renc, reng, row, line, of Germanic origin; see sker-2 in Indo-European roots.]
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