farming
Meaning of farming
- the activity or business of growing crops and raising livestock.
land was enclosed for arable farming
sheep farming
- make one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock.
he has farmed organically for years
- send out or subcontract work to others.
it saves time and money to farm out some writing work to specialized companies
- allow someone to collect and keep the revenues from (a tax) on payment of a fee.
the customs had been farmed to the collector for a fixed sum
Middle English: from Old French ferme, from medieval Latin firma ‘fixed payment’, from Latin firmare ‘fix, settle’ (in medieval Latin ‘contract for’), from firmus ‘constant, firm’; compare with firm2. The noun originally denoted a fixed annual amount payable as rent or tax; this is reflected in farm (sense 3 of the verb), which later gave rise to ‘to subcontract’ (farm (sense 2 of the verb)). The noun came to denote a lease, and, in the early 16th century, land leased for farming. The verb sense ‘grow crops or keep livestock’ dates from the early 19th century.
Information about farming
- The plural form of farming is: farmings.
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Hyphenation of farming
farm-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- farming is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
farming synonyms
Meaning agrarian:
Meaning agriculture:
Meaning land:
Meaning the action of cultivating land, or the state of being cultivated:
Meaning prepare and cultivate (land) for crops:
Meaning the preparation of land for growing crops:
Meaning the science of soil management and crop production:
Meaning the mating and production of offspring by animals:
Meaning the action or fact of owning, maintaining, or protecting something:
Meaning lift or move to a higher position or level:
Meaning bring up and care for (a child) until they are fully grown:
Meaning regularly or frequently behave in a particular way or have a certain characteristic:
Meaning the cultivation of plants:
Meaning put (a seed, bulb, or plant) in the ground so that it can grow:
Meaning plant (seed) by scattering it on or in the earth:
Meaning the science of agriculture:
Meaning obtain (goods or a service) by contract from an outside supplier:
Meaning employ a firm or person outside one's company to do (work) as part of a larger project:
Meaning entrust (a task or responsibility) to another person, typically one who is less senior than oneself:
farming antonyms
Meaning economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories:
Anagrams of farming
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