farm

Definition

  • noun: a piece of land used for growing crops or raising animals
  • noun: a sum or due fixed in amount and payable at fixed intervals
  • verb: to use land for growing food or raising animals
  • synonyms: leasehold, lease, cultivated

Examples

  • The company decided to 'farm out' the job of upgrading their Web site.

  • I nearly 'bought the farm' when my car skidded off the road.

  • My uncle has been 'farming' on this land for 60 years.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Be you and I behind an arras then, mark the encounter If he love her not, and be not from his reason fallen thereon... ...let me be no assistant for a state, but keep a farm and caners Away, I do beseech you both, away How does my good lord? - Well, god-a-mercy - Do you know me, my lord? (..)
    2015 Hamlet