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farm

noun

a farm of 100 acres:

smallholding, holding, farmstead, steading, grange, plantation, estate;

farmland, land, acreage, acres;

vineyard;

Scottish croft;

North American ranch;

Australian, New Zealand station;

in the West Indies pen;

in East Africa shamba;

in the Indian subcontinent tope.

verb

1 his dad farmed near Marlborough:

be a farmer, practise farming, cultivate/till/work the land, till the soil, rear livestock, do agricultural work.

2 the marshes are being drained in order to farm the land:

cultivate, bring under cultivation, till, work, plough, dig, plant.

3 the family has been farming cranberries for generations:

grow, cultivate, raise, plant, tend, bring on, harvest;

breed, rear, keep.

□ farm someone out

he had farmed the child out:

have fostered, have cared for, put in care;

British send to a childminder.

□ farm something out

the job of building the models was farmed out to the Shawcraft firm:

contract out, outsource, assign to others, subcontract, delegate.

farm Oxford Dictionary of English