Definition of Farm

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Definition of Farm

Farm

The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.

The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.

The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.

Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.

A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.

A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.

To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.

To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes.

To take at a certain rent or rate.

To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.

To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.

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Farm Quotations

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
Henry David Thoreau

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
Oprah Winfrey

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
Florence Nightingale

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
Dick Armey

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
Charles Dickens

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off."
Stephen King

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
Gore Vidal

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
Quentin Crisp

If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.
Maurice Strong

Farm Translations

farm in Afrikaans is plaas, boereplaas
farm in Dutch is agrarisch
farm in Finnish is vuokrata maata, vuokrasopimus, maatila
farm in French is domaine, affermer, afferment, affermez, affermons
farm in German is Farm, Bauernhof
farm in Italian is fattoria
farm in Latin is ager (agri)
farm in Portuguese is granja, fazenda
farm in Spanish is agrario, granja, finca

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