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Noun: farming  faa(r)-ming
  1. The practice of cultivating land or raising livestock
    "Good animal farming is essential for a productive farm";
    - agriculture, husbandry
     
  2. Agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
    "farming is a strenuous life";
    - land
Adjective: farming  faa(r)-ming
  1. Relating to farming or agriculture
    "an farming society"; "farming communities";
    - agrarian, agricultural
Verb: farm  faa(r)m
  1. Be a farmer; work as a farmer
    "My son is farming in California"
     
  2. (farming) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
    "We farm wheat here";
    - grow, raise, produce
     
  3. Collect fees or profits
    "The company farmed the parking fees from the city lots"

Derived forms: farmings

See also: hire out, rural

Type of: business, collect, cultivation, job, line, line of work, occupation, take in, work

Encyclopedia: Farming, Minnesota

Farm, George