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farm

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1. farm - Noun

2. farm - Verb

4. Farm - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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

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

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

If the collective farm is wealthy, the farmer is happy. Russian Proverb

From the king to the beggar, they all depend on the farm. Irish Proverb

It is a lazy man who says "it is only because I have no time that my farm is overgrown with weeds". Nigerian Proverb

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