Definition of farm in English:

farm

noun fɑːmfɑrm

1An area of land and its buildings, used for growing crops and rearing animals.
农场；牧场；饲养场
a farm of 100 acres
as modifier farm workers
Example sentencesExamples
- Total land in farms, at 46,400 acres, is unchanged from last year.
- Long active in the community, he has operated a family farm for 30 years.
- Every evening the animals will be taken to a farm on the outskirts of Dublin where they can rest overnight.
- The students of the school were told about the need for preserving farm animals.
- Your neighbour brings you back a sack of potatoes from his uncle's farm.
- She is one of four children who grew up on their father's farm in the south.
- The 37-year-old farm labourer has one week left to find a home.
- I have certainly come across studies and examples where badly managed larger scale farms have damaged the environment.
- Joseph began work as a farm labourer and the family settled into Canterbury life.
- Only 20 percent of the small family farms in the area are left.
- The highlight of my summers was going out to my uncle's farm about three miles outside the town.
- Some species of waterfowl adapted to feeding on rice, barley, lettuce, and other crops grown on farms in California.
- My uncles' farm was one of three farms on a private road.
- In 2002 he bought neighbouring farms and his estate is now 2500 acres.
- Items sold were mostly local and seasonal, farm produce or locally made artefacts.
- The City of Hamburg owns two large organic farms.
- He says that 200,000-acre factory farms fit his vision of what agriculture should be.
- But the ultimate cost will be the tragic demise of small family farms around the world.
- He put my grandfather's farm up for sale and had an offer on it.
- Private cars and visitors, too, must comply if they visit farms in the area.
Synonyms
smallholding, holding, farmstead, steading, grange, plantation, estate
farmland, land, acreage, acres
vineyard
Scottish croft
North American ranch
Australian/New Zealand station
in the West Indies pen
in East Africa shamba
in the Indian subcontinent tope
1. 1.1 A farmhouse.
  a half-timbered farm
  一座露明木架的农舍。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He added that this goes for houses, flats, farms, factories and offices.
  But these programmes were to be paid for by local taxpayers, taxed through the rates due on houses, farms, factories, and offices.
  She and her husband then joined their daughter and son-in-law in transforming Blunsdon House Hotel from a farm into a guesthouse and then into the large establishment it is today.
  It has established numerous farms, stores, and restaurants.
  He called at several big houses as well as farms and cottages, usually selling out before arriving ‘home’.
  Like Winnie, the residents of the 16 houses and three farms on Castley Lane, Pool-in-Wharfedale, near Otley, would not choose to live anywhere else.
  Each age built something they thought lasting - fortress, farms, railway, church or quarry - but all have given way.
  Key documents have been hidden in farms, homes and mosques.
  Of course it's not easy to read a fast-moving plane's registration number as it roars and dives low over houses, farms and factories.
  Since they have to be read regularly, they are placed in post offices, farms, radio stations, lighthouses, airports, etc and mostly in towns and cities.
  It ranges across the industrial and domestic spectrum from factories and offices to the the farm or the home.
  There has been a flurry of school trips, including London Zoo, farms, museums and galleries and lots of visiting theatre groups.
  Threshfield, it was said, consisted of 17 houses, four farms, a shop, a pub and a chapel.
  We have jobs, shops, houses, farms, a church, schools.
  They visited farms, museums and castle sites and had a very enjoyable time accompanied by their teachers.
  Village life revolved round the church, two farms and the local pub, the Old Bell Inn.
  They also have a residential farm which houses up to 15 young people, and have various other services to help homeless people get into good accommodation.
  You could build schools, farms, or factories that will provide for these people far into the future.
  In all, the trust has some 300 private houses and cottages plus 90 farms in the Lake District, all of which are likely to need distinctive local stone for maintenance in the future.
  More than 40 of these cottages were built by the end of the 19th century together with a church, school, stores, workshops, a farm and even a fire station.
2. 1.2with modifier A place for breeding a particular type of animal or producing a specified crop.
  养殖场；种植场
  a fish farm
  养鱼场。
  Example sentencesExamples
  You could say that the farmers who run intensive poultry farms deserve criticism for not looking after animals properly.
  He owns the well-known breeding and stallion farm, Ballylinch Stud home of the legendary Tetrarch and part of the Mount Juliet Estate.
  He grew up on a grape and citrus farm at Robinvale, on the Murray River in north-west Victoria.
  But these people aren't, after all, poultry farm workers.
  Visiting the pig farm will bring grief and loss into sharp focus once again.
  There's an ice rink, cinema, theatre, even a deer farm and a whisky museum.
  It is the foremost fish breeding farm in Europe and they take so much care over the fish and the area.
  The group has an option to buy a chicken farm where it wants to build a sophisticated textile factory.
  My grandfather's horse farm contained all sorts of breeds.
  The owners of a new stud farm on green belt land are being allowed to extend the buildings.
  Dubbed the queen of science fiction, she lives next door in Dragonhold Underhill, her rolling stud farm.
  She coordinates preventative medicine programs and pathology at Hagen's parrot breeding farm and research institute.
  At 1,500 acres, Hollesley Bay is the largest jail in the prison estate and has its own dairy herd, stud farm and arable crops.
  The country's 300 salmon farms produce 160,000 tonnes of fish a year.
  I am sure there must be a few good/healthy salmon fish farms.
  So, she is just trying to build a better poultry farm with the help of the whole village.
  He owns the largest Tilapia fish farm in the Philippines with 10 million fishes.
  Since that business where a woman's remains were dug up because her grandchildren ran a guinea pig farm, the Animal Rights mob have been persona non grata in our neck of the woods.
  They said I broke into a nearby rabbit farm and slew about two dozen.
  The decision to turn the site into a lavender farm and distillery is likely to be welcomed by locals who have long fought to ensure the land is put to good use.
  Synonyms
  ranch, range
3. 1.3with modifier A place devoted to producing or promoting something.
  an energy farm
  能源企业。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Previous attempts by local entrepreneurs to establish broiler farms were foiled by dumping below cost from the large producers in South Africa.
  At a Kurow dairy farm owned by Meridian Energy, this stray voltage was found to be around 1.5 volts.
  At Suzhou City in the Jiangsu province, he visited a fresh water pearl farm and factor and said he was impressed with the techniques used by the Chinese farmers.
  Six years ago this hillside and the lowland beneath it was farmland grazed by the dairy herd that was part of Kilmeaden Cheese Factory's model farm.
  Any company of their capitalization that can't manage to run a server farm successfully has serious internal management problems.
  And he bought an organic dairy farm in Wales.
  I asked the people there about the large windmill farm east of the Crowsnest Pass in Southern Alberta.
  On one hand the government takes on money from JBIC and on the other it is promoting the destructive prawn farm cultivation.
  Besides the skydiving side of the business, the owner, 36, also runs an organic dairy farm.
  The welcoming committee is pure science fiction, a towering wind energy farm of sleek white windmills, five storeys high and filling the valley's entire widescreen width.
  We get our milk from 33 small dairy farms located in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.
  The 100-acre wind farm near Strabane is currently capable of producing 6.6 kilo watts of power per hour.
  Ever anxious to learn more, the members changed tack and headed for Carne to visit the Wind Mill farm which was in total contrast to the experience in the Heritage Park.
  But those benefits disappear if the wind farms are owned by a utility.
  Hundreds of objections to plans to build the wind farm have been made.

verb fɑːmfɑrm

1no object Make one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock.
经营农场（或牧场等）；种田，务农
he has farmed organically for years
他用有机肥料栽培作物已有五年了。
Example sentencesExamples
- He's farmed organically since 1983 and has been a certified organic grower since 1995.
- For example, a century ago about 80 percent of the population worked the fields while today only a few percent pursue farming for a living.
- He is one of a dwindling number of farmers who depend sorely on farming for a living.
- But then he farmed for a living as had his father and grandfather before him.
- In Belize, they are the poorest of the poor, most living by subsistence farming.
- All that is consistent with the government's commitment to environmentally-friendly farming.
- In the last year Jay has decided he might want to farm full-time.
- State-owned railways and state-funded irrigation schemes helped make farming viable on this far-flung frontier.
- He farmed in partnership with his father, and for a few years also with his older brother Eric.
- He said he didn't go into art expecting a career and figured he would be earning a living from farming, gardening, or labouring.
- Under the new scheme individuals will be allowed to farm in partnership with their parents under a formal partnership arrangement.
- There are still a lot of hungry farmers out there who want to make their living from farming.
- Wayne and Ruth are looking creatively for new ways to make farming viable in western North Carolina.
- Zambian vernacular architecture is integrated with nature in an agricultural society of subsistence farming.
- I am also aware that New Zealand has made its living by doing farming in a very functional and technologically targeted way.
- Most Quechua rely on subsistence farming for their livelihood.
- In fifty years time it appears there will be very few people in this county earning their living from farming on a full time basis.
- Most people farmed for a living, and others took care of all necessary needs in the community.
- We thought anyone who was making a living from farming was farming conventionally.
- A small coffee industry and subsistence farming counterbalance the poverty of the land reserves.
Synonyms
be a farmer, practise farming, cultivate/till/work the land, till the soil, rear livestock, do agricultural work
1. 1.1with object Use (land) for growing crops and rearing animals.
  在（土地）上经营农场（或牧场等）
  marshes are being drained in order to farm the land
  Example sentencesExamples
  To do this, you need to have been actively farming the land for a minimum of two years and to produce accounts to back this up.
  Together she and her husband farmed the ranch land, and she bore seven children.
  Male workers all had to spend a certain number of days a year working on government projects, such as farming state-owned land.
  The land was farmed for years, then was changed for residential development.
  In 1903, one hundred years ago, most people in Ireland lived in the countryside, farmed the land, cultivated the food they ate and had very little extra money.
  It is really a culture of farming where food and farming the land are the center of the celebration of human culture.
  He also farmed the land and was well versed in many aspects of the farming scene.
  They continued to farm the land but eventually that all stopped.
  Joyance missed the days when she and her husband and young son had farmed the land her house sat upon.
  Bob farmed the land where the couple's home now stands.
  People had been forced out of farming their land and got the ‘cheque in the post.’
  Campaigners are also lobbying the government to increase the percentage of organically farmed land.
  Many conventionally farmed soils around here barely have 1 to 2 percent organic matter.
  This was discussed at length and it was strongly felt that the person who rented or actively farmed the land should be the benefactor in future.
  He farmed some land, growing much of what my mother served our family at dinner time.
  He resided just across the road from Burke's Shop where he farmed his land.
  You can structure your conservation easement so that you may still build one or more houses, farm the land and hunt wild animals.
  The latest statistics showed that around one in six farmhouses in the region have been sold to people who had no intention of farming the land themselves.
  Indians grew the sugar in the west and farmed their land with great quantities of artificial fertilizers.
  But although peasants farmed all the land in 1800, they often owned less than half of it.
  Synonyms
  cultivate, bring under cultivation, till, work, plough, dig, plant
2. 1.2with object Breed or grow (a type of livestock or crop) commercially.
  ostriches are farmed in South Africa and Australia
  Example sentencesExamples
  The grim reality is that the only way to save them is to farm them commercially.
  The fish-farming industry was brought to its knees by some report saying that eating farmed salmon can kill you.
  We deserve the grid we have - after all we value commercially farmed oysters over human life and comforts.
  Most salmon sold at supermarkets in the United States are farmed salmon, grown with feed derived from soybeans.
  The scientists tracked the source of the pollutants to the fish meal fed to intensively farmed salmon.
  Instead, family farming has remained prevalent because people have adjusted by farming different crops and combining agriculture with other ways of making a living.
  Drawing on his experience raising tilapia on fish farms in South America years ago, Warner embarked on an effort to farm the breed in big indoor tanks.
  In many cases households switch to farming crops that are less labour intensive, but these crops, the FAO notes, are often also less nutritious.
  These movement restrictions apply to all farmed livestock within that area.
  Castor plants that are free of ricin and allergens could renew interest in farming this crop.
  Not only is the farmed salmon crop nutritionally inferior to its wild counterpart; it is also known to be a dangerous source of contamination of the marine environment.
  Farmers began to use a new system, the three-field system, to farm their crops.
  As someone who farms arable crops near Swindon, I am only too aware that farmers are struggling.
  Two of them were game farms and the rest were used to farm crops and livestock.
  They have farmed their dairy herd at Gorsehill Abbey Farm for many years.
  I can't be reassured that the liver in this isn't from intensively farmed animals.
  I rejoice in the sustainable food source that is farmed livestock.
  Like all farmed livestock, salmon are regularly checked by veterinarians and occasionally require the use of licensed medicines.
  Biodiverse farming involves simultaneously farming several crops.
  Synonyms
  grow, cultivate, raise, plant, tend, bring on, harvest
  breed, rear, keep
2farm someone/something outwith object Send out or subcontract work to others.
将…外包（或分包）
it saves time and money to farm out some writing work to specialized companies
将一些文字工作外包给专门公司去做既省时，又省钱。
Example sentencesExamples
- Protection products and pensions feature strongly, while tax advice on more complex transactions tends to be farmed out to tax specialists.
- Full-time positions are being farmed out as contract work.
- Issues that threaten to create permanent obstacles are farmed out to commissions so they can be dealt with down the line.
- A lot of government services are farmed out to the private sector.
- Booking arrangements will be farmed out to private retail outlets, or passengers will be forced to use the Internet to make reservations.
- If every year a handful of issues were farmed out to assemblies like this one, one issue per assembly, it would be a job that could be done at a few hours a week.
- The lesser pieces are farmed out to their student accommodation.
- But if a company farms its work out to independent contractors, it can rid itself of costly expenses such as disability and social security taxes.
- Once operations are farmed out to a private investor, soon only the tracks and railbed will be publicly-owned, he said.
- There is no technical reason why farming it out to private providers or mutuals cannot work.
- Professional crossword makers farm their puzzles out to experts for a test drive before they are published.
- Many tasks have been farmed out to private, unaccountable contractors.
- The deputy prime minister warned it was a mistake to think entire departments would be farmed out to the regions.
- Trained inmates can be farmed out to local businesses, providing a good service in return for on-the-job training.
- All the component projects are farmed out across the country.
- Rather, they are automatically farmed out to subcontractors, who ship finished products directly to customers.
- In big companies, work is off-loaded to customers, or their problems are farmed out to call centers with productivity incentives designed to limit each call.
- All too frequently major issues that need decisions are farmed out to outsiders to make reports.
- Spare ones will be farmed out to other universities which have expressed an interest in getting involved.
- So he should immediately farm this whole record out to all kinds of good producers who could remix it entirely and try to make it better.
Synonyms
contract out, outsource, assign to others, subcontract, delegate
1. 2.1 Arrange for a child to be looked after by someone, usually for payment.
  把（孩子）寄养出去
  the babies are farmed out for five years
  他用有机肥料栽培作物已有五年了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Whoever farmed me out for adoption put a lot of work into covering up everything about where - or who - I came from.
  Who, after all, would choose to work and farm their kids out in the morning if they could be in the same financial position while staying at home?
  Her father's alcoholism plunged the family into poverty so humiliating that Dolly was farmed out to various generous strangers for upbringing.
  Synonyms
  have fostered, have cared for, send to a childminder, put in care
2. 2.2dated Send a sports player temporarily to another team in return for a fee.
  〈旧〉（暂时）转让；外租（运动员）
  he was farmed out in 1938 and '39 and came back for two games in 1940
  Example sentencesExamples
  So he was farmed out for a month with instructions to delay his swing a bit, go to right field more often, improve his bunting and reduce strikeouts.
  He first played for York in the 1998 season when he was farmed out to Huntington Stadium on loan from Castleford.
  It looked even bleaker when Steve bought in six summer signings and he was farmed out to Sunderland on loan.
  The RFU, not the clubs, would employ players and farm them out to the clubs.
3historical with object Allow someone to collect and keep the revenues from (a tax) on payment of a fee.
〈史〉（收取一定费用）将（税收）包出
the customs had been farmed to the collector for a fixed sum
在收取一笔固定款项后，关税已包给收税员征收。
Example sentencesExamples
- The sum offered by Andocides and his associates was thirty-six talents, which (he claims) still allowed them a small profit in farming the tax.
- The market was supervised by a warden and by the fifteenth century that officer was farming revenues due the city from the market.

Phrases

bet the farm

informal Risk everything that one owns on a bet, investment, or enterprise.
this isn't a great time to bet the farm on the Internet

buy back the farm

informal Retrieve the capital assets of a country from foreign ownership.
a government guarantee that in some areas we will buy back the farm

buy the farm

informal Die.
Synonyms
pass away, pass on, lose one's life, depart this life, expire, breathe one's last, draw one's last breath, meet one's end, meet one's death, lay down one's life, be no more, perish, be lost, go the way of the flesh, go the way of all flesh, go to glory, go to one's last resting place, go to meet one's maker, cross the great divide, cross the styx

from farm to fork (or table)

Used to refer to the various processes in the food chain from agricultural production to consumption.
a catering industry initiative that allows certified traceability of fresh meat and eggs from farm to fork
as modifier each of these countries has farm-to-fork legislation
Example sentencesExamples
- It helps to ensure that food is safe, from farm to fork.
- According to the company, it controls the temperature of food products "from farm to fork".
- Commissioner Byrne refers to the feed hygiene package as "the missing link" in the farm-to-fork approach to food safety.
- Miss Mills said she was glad the report had brought to the public's attention 'the systematic failures from farm to fork'.
- These include the food production and processing operations that occur from farm to table.
- The North Central Initiative for Small Farm Profitability, a regional project based at NU's Center for Applied Rural Innovation, is a four-state, multi-institutional, farm-to-fork initiative.
- Everyone in the farm-to-fork food safety system has a responsibility to reduce risk.
- To meet these requirements companies need to be able to trace their products through every stage from farm to fork.
- But from farm to table, the industry could well lose a quarter of a billion dollars.
- Unless far-reaching measures are taken to address consumer concerns 'from farm to fork', the crisis will only deepen.

sell off the farm

informal Sell the capital assets of a country to foreign interests.
the government is happy to keep selling off the farm
Example sentencesExamples
- There is, however, growing disquiet in the community about what many see as selling off the farm.
- The union is calling for appropriate levels of funding for the Service rather than selling off the farm for so-called short-term financial relief.
- Not selling off the farm seems a good idea for maximizing national independence.
- "We are selling off the farm and pretty soon there won't be any farm left," he said.
- Critics within the oil industry say that the government is selling the farm, and that it should have confined the international oil companies to oilfields which had been discovered but not developed.

Derivatives

farmable

adjectiveˈfɑːməb(ə)lˈfɑrməb(ə)l

Most of the farmable land, in the middle of the country, is used as grazing pastures for livestock.
Example sentencesExamples
- China has about 20 percent of the world's population, but only 7 percent of the world's farmable land.
- With less than 3 percent of its land farmable and little industry, Chad is a desperately poor country.
- One hundred sixty of those acres are farmable, and about 80 of those are currently being farmed by a dozen thriving, independent farm businesses with scores of employees and thousands - if not tens of thousands - of customers.
- In addition, windmills, called ‘polder mills,’ pump excess underground water to keep these areas dry and farmable.

Origin

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 sense 3 of the verb, which later gave rise to 'to subcontract' (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.

firm from Middle English:
Firm meaning ‘not yielding to pressure’ comes from Latin firmus, also the root of farm (Middle English), which originally meant a tax or rent. Firm meaning ‘a company or business’ has the same root, but the immediate origin is different. The Latin word had also given rise to Italian firma ‘confirmed by signature’, and in the late 16th century this was adopted into English to mean ‘an autograph or signature’. Over time it came to mean the name under which business was transacted by an organization, as in ‘trading under the firm of “Grant & Co.”’. Finally, in the late 18th century, firm became the term for a company.

Rhymes

alarm, arm, Bairam, balm, barm, becalm, calm, charm, embalm, forearm, Guam, harm, imam, ma'am, malm, Montcalm, Notre-Dame, palm, psalm, qualm, salaam, smarm

Definition of farm in US English:

farm

nounfärmfɑrm

1An area of land and its buildings used for growing crops and rearing animals, typically under the control of one owner or manager.
农场；牧场；饲养场
Example sentencesExamples
- Private cars and visitors, too, must comply if they visit farms in the area.
- Some species of waterfowl adapted to feeding on rice, barley, lettuce, and other crops grown on farms in California.
- In 2002 he bought neighbouring farms and his estate is now 2500 acres.
- He says that 200,000-acre factory farms fit his vision of what agriculture should be.
- But the ultimate cost will be the tragic demise of small family farms around the world.
- The highlight of my summers was going out to my uncle's farm about three miles outside the town.
- She is one of four children who grew up on their father's farm in the south.
- The City of Hamburg owns two large organic farms.
- The 37-year-old farm labourer has one week left to find a home.
- The students of the school were told about the need for preserving farm animals.
- I have certainly come across studies and examples where badly managed larger scale farms have damaged the environment.
- Items sold were mostly local and seasonal, farm produce or locally made artefacts.
- Long active in the community, he has operated a family farm for 30 years.
- Total land in farms, at 46,400 acres, is unchanged from last year.
- Your neighbour brings you back a sack of potatoes from his uncle's farm.
- He put my grandfather's farm up for sale and had an offer on it.
- Joseph began work as a farm labourer and the family settled into Canterbury life.
- My uncles' farm was one of three farms on a private road.
- Only 20 percent of the small family farms in the area are left.
- Every evening the animals will be taken to a farm on the outskirts of Dublin where they can rest overnight.
Synonyms
smallholding, holding, farmstead, steading, grange, plantation, estate
1. 1.1 The main dwelling place on a farm; a farmhouse.
  农场住宅区；农舍
  a half-timbered farm
  一座露明木架的农舍。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He called at several big houses as well as farms and cottages, usually selling out before arriving ‘home’.
  But these programmes were to be paid for by local taxpayers, taxed through the rates due on houses, farms, factories, and offices.
  It ranges across the industrial and domestic spectrum from factories and offices to the the farm or the home.
  They visited farms, museums and castle sites and had a very enjoyable time accompanied by their teachers.
  You could build schools, farms, or factories that will provide for these people far into the future.
  He added that this goes for houses, flats, farms, factories and offices.
  Threshfield, it was said, consisted of 17 houses, four farms, a shop, a pub and a chapel.
  Like Winnie, the residents of the 16 houses and three farms on Castley Lane, Pool-in-Wharfedale, near Otley, would not choose to live anywhere else.
  They also have a residential farm which houses up to 15 young people, and have various other services to help homeless people get into good accommodation.
  There has been a flurry of school trips, including London Zoo, farms, museums and galleries and lots of visiting theatre groups.
  Of course it's not easy to read a fast-moving plane's registration number as it roars and dives low over houses, farms and factories.
  In all, the trust has some 300 private houses and cottages plus 90 farms in the Lake District, all of which are likely to need distinctive local stone for maintenance in the future.
  It has established numerous farms, stores, and restaurants.
  Village life revolved round the church, two farms and the local pub, the Old Bell Inn.
  We have jobs, shops, houses, farms, a church, schools.
  Each age built something they thought lasting - fortress, farms, railway, church or quarry - but all have given way.
  She and her husband then joined their daughter and son-in-law in transforming Blunsdon House Hotel from a farm into a guesthouse and then into the large establishment it is today.
  Key documents have been hidden in farms, homes and mosques.
  Since they have to be read regularly, they are placed in post offices, farms, radio stations, lighthouses, airports, etc and mostly in towns and cities.
  More than 40 of these cottages were built by the end of the 19th century together with a church, school, stores, workshops, a farm and even a fire station.
2. 1.2with modifier A place for breeding a particular type of animal or producing a specified crop.
  养殖场；种植场
  a fish farm
  养鱼场。
  Example sentencesExamples
  My grandfather's horse farm contained all sorts of breeds.
  The group has an option to buy a chicken farm where it wants to build a sophisticated textile factory.
  Dubbed the queen of science fiction, she lives next door in Dragonhold Underhill, her rolling stud farm.
  It is the foremost fish breeding farm in Europe and they take so much care over the fish and the area.
  Since that business where a woman's remains were dug up because her grandchildren ran a guinea pig farm, the Animal Rights mob have been persona non grata in our neck of the woods.
  I am sure there must be a few good/healthy salmon fish farms.
  The owners of a new stud farm on green belt land are being allowed to extend the buildings.
  So, she is just trying to build a better poultry farm with the help of the whole village.
  He grew up on a grape and citrus farm at Robinvale, on the Murray River in north-west Victoria.
  She coordinates preventative medicine programs and pathology at Hagen's parrot breeding farm and research institute.
  There's an ice rink, cinema, theatre, even a deer farm and a whisky museum.
  Visiting the pig farm will bring grief and loss into sharp focus once again.
  He owns the well-known breeding and stallion farm, Ballylinch Stud home of the legendary Tetrarch and part of the Mount Juliet Estate.
  The decision to turn the site into a lavender farm and distillery is likely to be welcomed by locals who have long fought to ensure the land is put to good use.
  The country's 300 salmon farms produce 160,000 tonnes of fish a year.
  But these people aren't, after all, poultry farm workers.
  He owns the largest Tilapia fish farm in the Philippines with 10 million fishes.
  You could say that the farmers who run intensive poultry farms deserve criticism for not looking after animals properly.
  At 1,500 acres, Hollesley Bay is the largest jail in the prison estate and has its own dairy herd, stud farm and arable crops.
  They said I broke into a nearby rabbit farm and slew about two dozen.
  Synonyms
  ranch, range
3. 1.3with modifier An establishment at which something is produced or processed.
  生产（或加工）企业
  an energy farm
  能源企业。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Hundreds of objections to plans to build the wind farm have been made.
  We get our milk from 33 small dairy farms located in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.
  I asked the people there about the large windmill farm east of the Crowsnest Pass in Southern Alberta.
  Six years ago this hillside and the lowland beneath it was farmland grazed by the dairy herd that was part of Kilmeaden Cheese Factory's model farm.
  Previous attempts by local entrepreneurs to establish broiler farms were foiled by dumping below cost from the large producers in South Africa.
  The 100-acre wind farm near Strabane is currently capable of producing 6.6 kilo watts of power per hour.
  At Suzhou City in the Jiangsu province, he visited a fresh water pearl farm and factor and said he was impressed with the techniques used by the Chinese farmers.
  On one hand the government takes on money from JBIC and on the other it is promoting the destructive prawn farm cultivation.
  Besides the skydiving side of the business, the owner, 36, also runs an organic dairy farm.
  But those benefits disappear if the wind farms are owned by a utility.
  Any company of their capitalization that can't manage to run a server farm successfully has serious internal management problems.
  And he bought an organic dairy farm in Wales.
  The welcoming committee is pure science fiction, a towering wind energy farm of sleek white windmills, five storeys high and filling the valley's entire widescreen width.
  At a Kurow dairy farm owned by Meridian Energy, this stray voltage was found to be around 1.5 volts.
  Ever anxious to learn more, the members changed tack and headed for Carne to visit the Wind Mill farm which was in total contrast to the experience in the Heritage Park.

verbfärmfɑrm

1no object Make one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock.
经营农场（或牧场等）；种田，务农
he has farmed organically for five years
他用有机肥料栽培作物已有五年了。
Example sentencesExamples
- In Belize, they are the poorest of the poor, most living by subsistence farming.
- All that is consistent with the government's commitment to environmentally-friendly farming.
- He is one of a dwindling number of farmers who depend sorely on farming for a living.
- A small coffee industry and subsistence farming counterbalance the poverty of the land reserves.
- There are still a lot of hungry farmers out there who want to make their living from farming.
- In the last year Jay has decided he might want to farm full-time.
- He said he didn't go into art expecting a career and figured he would be earning a living from farming, gardening, or labouring.
- We thought anyone who was making a living from farming was farming conventionally.
- Zambian vernacular architecture is integrated with nature in an agricultural society of subsistence farming.
- But then he farmed for a living as had his father and grandfather before him.
- I am also aware that New Zealand has made its living by doing farming in a very functional and technologically targeted way.
- He's farmed organically since 1983 and has been a certified organic grower since 1995.
- Most Quechua rely on subsistence farming for their livelihood.
- He farmed in partnership with his father, and for a few years also with his older brother Eric.
- Most people farmed for a living, and others took care of all necessary needs in the community.
- For example, a century ago about 80 percent of the population worked the fields while today only a few percent pursue farming for a living.
- Under the new scheme individuals will be allowed to farm in partnership with their parents under a formal partnership arrangement.
- State-owned railways and state-funded irrigation schemes helped make farming viable on this far-flung frontier.
- In fifty years time it appears there will be very few people in this county earning their living from farming on a full time basis.
- Wayne and Ruth are looking creatively for new ways to make farming viable in western North Carolina.
Synonyms
be a farmer, practise farming, cultivate the land, till the land, work the land, till the soil, rear livestock, do agricultural work
1. 1.1with object Use (land) for growing crops and rearing animals, especially commercially.
  在（土地）上经营农场（或牧场等）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Many conventionally farmed soils around here barely have 1 to 2 percent organic matter.
  Indians grew the sugar in the west and farmed their land with great quantities of artificial fertilizers.
  This was discussed at length and it was strongly felt that the person who rented or actively farmed the land should be the benefactor in future.
  The latest statistics showed that around one in six farmhouses in the region have been sold to people who had no intention of farming the land themselves.
  The land was farmed for years, then was changed for residential development.
  Male workers all had to spend a certain number of days a year working on government projects, such as farming state-owned land.
  Campaigners are also lobbying the government to increase the percentage of organically farmed land.
  It is really a culture of farming where food and farming the land are the center of the celebration of human culture.
  Together she and her husband farmed the ranch land, and she bore seven children.
  They continued to farm the land but eventually that all stopped.
  To do this, you need to have been actively farming the land for a minimum of two years and to produce accounts to back this up.
  But although peasants farmed all the land in 1800, they often owned less than half of it.
  He resided just across the road from Burke's Shop where he farmed his land.
  He also farmed the land and was well versed in many aspects of the farming scene.
  You can structure your conservation easement so that you may still build one or more houses, farm the land and hunt wild animals.
  He farmed some land, growing much of what my mother served our family at dinner time.
  In 1903, one hundred years ago, most people in Ireland lived in the countryside, farmed the land, cultivated the food they ate and had very little extra money.
  People had been forced out of farming their land and got the ‘cheque in the post.’
  Bob farmed the land where the couple's home now stands.
  Joyance missed the days when she and her husband and young son had farmed the land her house sat upon.
  Synonyms
  cultivate, bring under cultivation, till, work, plough, dig, plant
2. 1.2with object Breed or grow commercially (a type of livestock or crop, especially one not normally domesticated or cultivated)
  商业化养殖（牲畜，尤指非驯养的动物）；商业化种植（作物，尤指非培育的作物）
  ostriches are farmed in South Africa and Australia
  Example sentencesExamples
  I rejoice in the sustainable food source that is farmed livestock.
  They have farmed their dairy herd at Gorsehill Abbey Farm for many years.
  In many cases households switch to farming crops that are less labour intensive, but these crops, the FAO notes, are often also less nutritious.
  I can't be reassured that the liver in this isn't from intensively farmed animals.
  The scientists tracked the source of the pollutants to the fish meal fed to intensively farmed salmon.
  Instead, family farming has remained prevalent because people have adjusted by farming different crops and combining agriculture with other ways of making a living.
  The grim reality is that the only way to save them is to farm them commercially.
  Two of them were game farms and the rest were used to farm crops and livestock.
  These movement restrictions apply to all farmed livestock within that area.
  The fish-farming industry was brought to its knees by some report saying that eating farmed salmon can kill you.
  Biodiverse farming involves simultaneously farming several crops.
  Castor plants that are free of ricin and allergens could renew interest in farming this crop.
  Drawing on his experience raising tilapia on fish farms in South America years ago, Warner embarked on an effort to farm the breed in big indoor tanks.
  As someone who farms arable crops near Swindon, I am only too aware that farmers are struggling.
  Most salmon sold at supermarkets in the United States are farmed salmon, grown with feed derived from soybeans.
  Not only is the farmed salmon crop nutritionally inferior to its wild counterpart; it is also known to be a dangerous source of contamination of the marine environment.
  We deserve the grid we have - after all we value commercially farmed oysters over human life and comforts.
  Like all farmed livestock, salmon are regularly checked by veterinarians and occasionally require the use of licensed medicines.
  Farmers began to use a new system, the three-field system, to farm their crops.
  Synonyms
  grow, cultivate, raise, plant, tend, bring on, harvest
2farm someone/something outwith object Send out or subcontract work to others.
将…外包（或分包）
it saves time and money to farm out some writing work to specialized companies
将一些文字工作外包给专门公司去做既省时，又省钱。
Example sentencesExamples
- All the component projects are farmed out across the country.
- But if a company farms its work out to independent contractors, it can rid itself of costly expenses such as disability and social security taxes.
- Booking arrangements will be farmed out to private retail outlets, or passengers will be forced to use the Internet to make reservations.
- If every year a handful of issues were farmed out to assemblies like this one, one issue per assembly, it would be a job that could be done at a few hours a week.
- There is no technical reason why farming it out to private providers or mutuals cannot work.
- Trained inmates can be farmed out to local businesses, providing a good service in return for on-the-job training.
- So he should immediately farm this whole record out to all kinds of good producers who could remix it entirely and try to make it better.
- Full-time positions are being farmed out as contract work.
- Professional crossword makers farm their puzzles out to experts for a test drive before they are published.
- Rather, they are automatically farmed out to subcontractors, who ship finished products directly to customers.
- Many tasks have been farmed out to private, unaccountable contractors.
- Once operations are farmed out to a private investor, soon only the tracks and railbed will be publicly-owned, he said.
- All too frequently major issues that need decisions are farmed out to outsiders to make reports.
- Issues that threaten to create permanent obstacles are farmed out to commissions so they can be dealt with down the line.
- The deputy prime minister warned it was a mistake to think entire departments would be farmed out to the regions.
- In big companies, work is off-loaded to customers, or their problems are farmed out to call centers with productivity incentives designed to limit each call.
- Spare ones will be farmed out to other universities which have expressed an interest in getting involved.
- A lot of government services are farmed out to the private sector.
- The lesser pieces are farmed out to their student accommodation.
- Protection products and pensions feature strongly, while tax advice on more complex transactions tends to be farmed out to tax specialists.
Synonyms
contract out, outsource, assign to others, subcontract, delegate
1. 2.1 Arrange for a child or other dependent person to be looked after by someone, usually for payment.
  把（孩子）寄养出去
  Example sentencesExamples
  Her father's alcoholism plunged the family into poverty so humiliating that Dolly was farmed out to various generous strangers for upbringing.
  Who, after all, would choose to work and farm their kids out in the morning if they could be in the same financial position while staying at home?
  Whoever farmed me out for adoption put a lot of work into covering up everything about where - or who - I came from.
  Synonyms
  have fostered, have cared for, send to a childminder, put in care
2. 2.2dated Send a sports player to a farm team.
  Example sentencesExamples
  He first played for York in the 1998 season when he was farmed out to Huntington Stadium on loan from Castleford.
  So he was farmed out for a month with instructions to delay his swing a bit, go to right field more often, improve his bunting and reduce strikeouts.
  It looked even bleaker when Steve bought in six summer signings and he was farmed out to Sunderland on loan.
  The RFU, not the clubs, would employ players and farm them out to the clubs.
3historical with object Allow someone to collect and keep the revenues from (a tax) on payment of a fee.
〈史〉（收取一定费用）将（税收）包出
the customs had been farmed to the collector for a fixed sum
在收取一笔固定款项后，关税已包给收税员征收。
Example sentencesExamples
- The market was supervised by a warden and by the fifteenth century that officer was farming revenues due the city from the market.
- The sum offered by Andocides and his associates was thirty-six talents, which (he claims) still allowed them a small profit in farming the tax.

Phrases

bet the farm

informal Risk everything that one owns on a bet, investment, or enterprise.
they're betting the farm on this merger bid

buy the farm

informal Die.
Synonyms
pass away, pass on, lose one's life, depart this life, expire, breathe one's last, draw one's last breath, meet one's end, meet one's death, lay down one's life, be no more, perish, be lost, go the way of the flesh, go the way of all flesh, go to glory, go to one's last resting place, go to meet one's maker, cross the great divide, cross the styx

from farm to fork (or table)

Used to refer to the various processes in the food chain from agricultural production to consumption.
a catering industry initiative that allows certified traceability of fresh meat and eggs from farm to fork
as modifier each of these countries has farm-to-fork legislation
Example sentencesExamples
- But from farm to table, the industry could well lose a quarter of a billion dollars.
- According to the company, it controls the temperature of food products "from farm to fork".
- It helps to ensure that food is safe, from farm to fork.
- To meet these requirements companies need to be able to trace their products through every stage from farm to fork.
- Commissioner Byrne refers to the feed hygiene package as "the missing link" in the farm-to-fork approach to food safety.
- Everyone in the farm-to-fork food safety system has a responsibility to reduce risk.
- These include the food production and processing operations that occur from farm to table.
- Miss Mills said she was glad the report had brought to the public's attention 'the systematic failures from farm to fork'.
- Unless far-reaching measures are taken to address consumer concerns 'from farm to fork', the crisis will only deepen.
- The North Central Initiative for Small Farm Profitability, a regional project based at NU's Center for Applied Rural Innovation, is a four-state, multi-institutional, farm-to-fork initiative.

Origin

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 firm. 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.

词汇	farm
释义	Definition of farm in English: farm noun fɑːmfɑrm 1An area of land and its buildings, used for growing crops and rearing animals. 农场；牧场；饲养场 a farm of 100 acres as modifier farm workers Example sentencesExamples Total land in farms, at 46,400 acres, is unchanged from last year. Long active in the community, he has operated a family farm for 30 years. Every evening the animals will be taken to a farm on the outskirts of Dublin where they can rest overnight. The students of the school were told about the need for preserving farm animals. Your neighbour brings you back a sack of potatoes from his uncle's farm. She is one of four children who grew up on their father's farm in the south. The 37-year-old farm labourer has one week left to find a home. I have certainly come across studies and examples where badly managed larger scale farms have damaged the environment. Joseph began work as a farm labourer and the family settled into Canterbury life. Only 20 percent of the small family farms in the area are left. The highlight of my summers was going out to my uncle's farm about three miles outside the town. Some species of waterfowl adapted to feeding on rice, barley, lettuce, and other crops grown on farms in California. My uncles' farm was one of three farms on a private road. In 2002 he bought neighbouring farms and his estate is now 2500 acres. Items sold were mostly local and seasonal, farm produce or locally made artefacts. The City of Hamburg owns two large organic farms. He says that 200,000-acre factory farms fit his vision of what agriculture should be. But the ultimate cost will be the tragic demise of small family farms around the world. He put my grandfather's farm up for sale and had an offer on it. Private cars and visitors, too, must comply if they visit farms in the area. Synonyms smallholding, holding, farmstead, steading, grange, plantation, estate farmland, land, acreage, acres vineyard Scottish croft North American ranch Australian/New Zealand station in the West Indies pen in East Africa shamba in the Indian subcontinent tope 1.1 A farmhouse. a half-timbered farm 一座露明木架的农舍。 Example sentencesExamples He added that this goes for houses, flats, farms, factories and offices. But these programmes were to be paid for by local taxpayers, taxed through the rates due on houses, farms, factories, and offices. She and her husband then joined their daughter and son-in-law in transforming Blunsdon House Hotel from a farm into a guesthouse and then into the large establishment it is today. It has established numerous farms, stores, and restaurants. He called at several big houses as well as farms and cottages, usually selling out before arriving ‘home’. Like Winnie, the residents of the 16 houses and three farms on Castley Lane, Pool-in-Wharfedale, near Otley, would not choose to live anywhere else. Each age built something they thought lasting - fortress, farms, railway, church or quarry - but all have given way. Key documents have been hidden in farms, homes and mosques. Of course it's not easy to read a fast-moving plane's registration number as it roars and dives low over houses, farms and factories. Since they have to be read regularly, they are placed in post offices, farms, radio stations, lighthouses, airports, etc and mostly in towns and cities. It ranges across the industrial and domestic spectrum from factories and offices to the the farm or the home. There has been a flurry of school trips, including London Zoo, farms, museums and galleries and lots of visiting theatre groups. Threshfield, it was said, consisted of 17 houses, four farms, a shop, a pub and a chapel. We have jobs, shops, houses, farms, a church, schools. They visited farms, museums and castle sites and had a very enjoyable time accompanied by their teachers. Village life revolved round the church, two farms and the local pub, the Old Bell Inn. They also have a residential farm which houses up to 15 young people, and have various other services to help homeless people get into good accommodation. You could build schools, farms, or factories that will provide for these people far into the future. In all, the trust has some 300 private houses and cottages plus 90 farms in the Lake District, all of which are likely to need distinctive local stone for maintenance in the future. More than 40 of these cottages were built by the end of the 19th century together with a church, school, stores, workshops, a farm and even a fire station. 1.2with modifier A place for breeding a particular type of animal or producing a specified crop. 养殖场；种植场 a fish farm 养鱼场。 Example sentencesExamples You could say that the farmers who run intensive poultry farms deserve criticism for not looking after animals properly. He owns the well-known breeding and stallion farm, Ballylinch Stud home of the legendary Tetrarch and part of the Mount Juliet Estate. He grew up on a grape and citrus farm at Robinvale, on the Murray River in north-west Victoria. But these people aren't, after all, poultry farm workers. Visiting the pig farm will bring grief and loss into sharp focus once again. There's an ice rink, cinema, theatre, even a deer farm and a whisky museum. It is the foremost fish breeding farm in Europe and they take so much care over the fish and the area. The group has an option to buy a chicken farm where it wants to build a sophisticated textile factory. My grandfather's horse farm contained all sorts of breeds. The owners of a new stud farm on green belt land are being allowed to extend the buildings. Dubbed the queen of science fiction, she lives next door in Dragonhold Underhill, her rolling stud farm. She coordinates preventative medicine programs and pathology at Hagen's parrot breeding farm and research institute. At 1,500 acres, Hollesley Bay is the largest jail in the prison estate and has its own dairy herd, stud farm and arable crops. The country's 300 salmon farms produce 160,000 tonnes of fish a year. I am sure there must be a few good/healthy salmon fish farms. So, she is just trying to build a better poultry farm with the help of the whole village. He owns the largest Tilapia fish farm in the Philippines with 10 million fishes. Since that business where a woman's remains were dug up because her grandchildren ran a guinea pig farm, the Animal Rights mob have been persona non grata in our neck of the woods. They said I broke into a nearby rabbit farm and slew about two dozen. The decision to turn the site into a lavender farm and distillery is likely to be welcomed by locals who have long fought to ensure the land is put to good use. Synonyms ranch, range 1.3with modifier A place devoted to producing or promoting something. an energy farm 能源企业。 Example sentencesExamples Previous attempts by local entrepreneurs to establish broiler farms were foiled by dumping below cost from the large producers in South Africa. At a Kurow dairy farm owned by Meridian Energy, this stray voltage was found to be around 1.5 volts. At Suzhou City in the Jiangsu province, he visited a fresh water pearl farm and factor and said he was impressed with the techniques used by the Chinese farmers. Six years ago this hillside and the lowland beneath it was farmland grazed by the dairy herd that was part of Kilmeaden Cheese Factory's model farm. Any company of their capitalization that can't manage to run a server farm successfully has serious internal management problems. And he bought an organic dairy farm in Wales. I asked the people there about the large windmill farm east of the Crowsnest Pass in Southern Alberta. On one hand the government takes on money from JBIC and on the other it is promoting the destructive prawn farm cultivation. Besides the skydiving side of the business, the owner, 36, also runs an organic dairy farm. The welcoming committee is pure science fiction, a towering wind energy farm of sleek white windmills, five storeys high and filling the valley's entire widescreen width. We get our milk from 33 small dairy farms located in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. The 100-acre wind farm near Strabane is currently capable of producing 6.6 kilo watts of power per hour. Ever anxious to learn more, the members changed tack and headed for Carne to visit the Wind Mill farm which was in total contrast to the experience in the Heritage Park. But those benefits disappear if the wind farms are owned by a utility. Hundreds of objections to plans to build the wind farm have been made. verb fɑːmfɑrm 1no object Make one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock. 经营农场（或牧场等）；种田，务农 he has farmed organically for years 他用有机肥料栽培作物已有五年了。 Example sentencesExamples He's farmed organically since 1983 and has been a certified organic grower since 1995. For example, a century ago about 80 percent of the population worked the fields while today only a few percent pursue farming for a living. He is one of a dwindling number of farmers who depend sorely on farming for a living. But then he farmed for a living as had his father and grandfather before him. In Belize, they are the poorest of the poor, most living by subsistence farming. All that is consistent with the government's commitment to environmentally-friendly farming. In the last year Jay has decided he might want to farm full-time. State-owned railways and state-funded irrigation schemes helped make farming viable on this far-flung frontier. He farmed in partnership with his father, and for a few years also with his older brother Eric. He said he didn't go into art expecting a career and figured he would be earning a living from farming, gardening, or labouring. Under the new scheme individuals will be allowed to farm in partnership with their parents under a formal partnership arrangement. There are still a lot of hungry farmers out there who want to make their living from farming. Wayne and Ruth are looking creatively for new ways to make farming viable in western North Carolina. Zambian vernacular architecture is integrated with nature in an agricultural society of subsistence farming. I am also aware that New Zealand has made its living by doing farming in a very functional and technologically targeted way. Most Quechua rely on subsistence farming for their livelihood. In fifty years time it appears there will be very few people in this county earning their living from farming on a full time basis. Most people farmed for a living, and others took care of all necessary needs in the community. We thought anyone who was making a living from farming was farming conventionally. A small coffee industry and subsistence farming counterbalance the poverty of the land reserves. Synonyms be a farmer, practise farming, cultivate/till/work the land, till the soil, rear livestock, do agricultural work 1.1with object Use (land) for growing crops and rearing animals. 在（土地）上经营农场（或牧场等） marshes are being drained in order to farm the land Example sentencesExamples To do this, you need to have been actively farming the land for a minimum of two years and to produce accounts to back this up. Together she and her husband farmed the ranch land, and she bore seven children. Male workers all had to spend a certain number of days a year working on government projects, such as farming state-owned land. The land was farmed for years, then was changed for residential development. In 1903, one hundred years ago, most people in Ireland lived in the countryside, farmed the land, cultivated the food they ate and had very little extra money. It is really a culture of farming where food and farming the land are the center of the celebration of human culture. He also farmed the land and was well versed in many aspects of the farming scene. They continued to farm the land but eventually that all stopped. Joyance missed the days when she and her husband and young son had farmed the land her house sat upon. Bob farmed the land where the couple's home now stands. People had been forced out of farming their land and got the ‘cheque in the post.’ Campaigners are also lobbying the government to increase the percentage of organically farmed land. Many conventionally farmed soils around here barely have 1 to 2 percent organic matter. This was discussed at length and it was strongly felt that the person who rented or actively farmed the land should be the benefactor in future. He farmed some land, growing much of what my mother served our family at dinner time. He resided just across the road from Burke's Shop where he farmed his land. You can structure your conservation easement so that you may still build one or more houses, farm the land and hunt wild animals. The latest statistics showed that around one in six farmhouses in the region have been sold to people who had no intention of farming the land themselves. Indians grew the sugar in the west and farmed their land with great quantities of artificial fertilizers. But although peasants farmed all the land in 1800, they often owned less than half of it. Synonyms cultivate, bring under cultivation, till, work, plough, dig, plant 1.2with object Breed or grow (a type of livestock or crop) commercially. ostriches are farmed in South Africa and Australia Example sentencesExamples The grim reality is that the only way to save them is to farm them commercially. The fish-farming industry was brought to its knees by some report saying that eating farmed salmon can kill you. We deserve the grid we have - after all we value commercially farmed oysters over human life and comforts. Most salmon sold at supermarkets in the United States are farmed salmon, grown with feed derived from soybeans. The scientists tracked the source of the pollutants to the fish meal fed to intensively farmed salmon. Instead, family farming has remained prevalent because people have adjusted by farming different crops and combining agriculture with other ways of making a living. Drawing on his experience raising tilapia on fish farms in South America years ago, Warner embarked on an effort to farm the breed in big indoor tanks. In many cases households switch to farming crops that are less labour intensive, but these crops, the FAO notes, are often also less nutritious. These movement restrictions apply to all farmed livestock within that area. Castor plants that are free of ricin and allergens could renew interest in farming this crop. Not only is the farmed salmon crop nutritionally inferior to its wild counterpart; it is also known to be a dangerous source of contamination of the marine environment. Farmers began to use a new system, the three-field system, to farm their crops. As someone who farms arable crops near Swindon, I am only too aware that farmers are struggling. Two of them were game farms and the rest were used to farm crops and livestock. They have farmed their dairy herd at Gorsehill Abbey Farm for many years. I can't be reassured that the liver in this isn't from intensively farmed animals. I rejoice in the sustainable food source that is farmed livestock. Like all farmed livestock, salmon are regularly checked by veterinarians and occasionally require the use of licensed medicines. Biodiverse farming involves simultaneously farming several crops. Synonyms grow, cultivate, raise, plant, tend, bring on, harvest breed, rear, keep 2farm someone/something outwith object Send out or subcontract work to others. 将…外包（或分包） it saves time and money to farm out some writing work to specialized companies 将一些文字工作外包给专门公司去做既省时，又省钱。 Example sentencesExamples Protection products and pensions feature strongly, while tax advice on more complex transactions tends to be farmed out to tax specialists. Full-time positions are being farmed out as contract work. Issues that threaten to create permanent obstacles are farmed out to commissions so they can be dealt with down the line. A lot of government services are farmed out to the private sector. Booking arrangements will be farmed out to private retail outlets, or passengers will be forced to use the Internet to make reservations. If every year a handful of issues were farmed out to assemblies like this one, one issue per assembly, it would be a job that could be done at a few hours a week. The lesser pieces are farmed out to their student accommodation. But if a company farms its work out to independent contractors, it can rid itself of costly expenses such as disability and social security taxes. Once operations are farmed out to a private investor, soon only the tracks and railbed will be publicly-owned, he said. There is no technical reason why farming it out to private providers or mutuals cannot work. Professional crossword makers farm their puzzles out to experts for a test drive before they are published. Many tasks have been farmed out to private, unaccountable contractors. The deputy prime minister warned it was a mistake to think entire departments would be farmed out to the regions. Trained inmates can be farmed out to local businesses, providing a good service in return for on-the-job training. All the component projects are farmed out across the country. Rather, they are automatically farmed out to subcontractors, who ship finished products directly to customers. In big companies, work is off-loaded to customers, or their problems are farmed out to call centers with productivity incentives designed to limit each call. All too frequently major issues that need decisions are farmed out to outsiders to make reports. Spare ones will be farmed out to other universities which have expressed an interest in getting involved. So he should immediately farm this whole record out to all kinds of good producers who could remix it entirely and try to make it better. Synonyms contract out, outsource, assign to others, subcontract, delegate 2.1 Arrange for a child to be looked after by someone, usually for payment. 把（孩子）寄养出去 the babies are farmed out for five years 他用有机肥料栽培作物已有五年了。 Example sentencesExamples Whoever farmed me out for adoption put a lot of work into covering up everything about where - or who - I came from. Who, after all, would choose to work and farm their kids out in the morning if they could be in the same financial position while staying at home? Her father's alcoholism plunged the family into poverty so humiliating that Dolly was farmed out to various generous strangers for upbringing. Synonyms have fostered, have cared for, send to a childminder, put in care 2.2dated Send a sports player temporarily to another team in return for a fee. 〈旧〉（暂时）转让；外租（运动员） he was farmed out in 1938 and '39 and came back for two games in 1940 Example sentencesExamples So he was farmed out for a month with instructions to delay his swing a bit, go to right field more often, improve his bunting and reduce strikeouts. He first played for York in the 1998 season when he was farmed out to Huntington Stadium on loan from Castleford. It looked even bleaker when Steve bought in six summer signings and he was farmed out to Sunderland on loan. The RFU, not the clubs, would employ players and farm them out to the clubs. 3historical with object Allow someone to collect and keep the revenues from (a tax) on payment of a fee. 〈史〉（收取一定费用）将（税收）包出 the customs had been farmed to the collector for a fixed sum 在收取一笔固定款项后，关税已包给收税员征收。 Example sentencesExamples The sum offered by Andocides and his associates was thirty-six talents, which (he claims) still allowed them a small profit in farming the tax. The market was supervised by a warden and by the fifteenth century that officer was farming revenues due the city from the market. Phrases bet the farm informal Risk everything that one owns on a bet, investment, or enterprise. this isn't a great time to bet the farm on the Internet buy back the farm informal Retrieve the capital assets of a country from foreign ownership. a government guarantee that in some areas we will buy back the farm buy the farm informal Die. Synonyms pass away, pass on, lose one's life, depart this life, expire, breathe one's last, draw one's last breath, meet one's end, meet one's death, lay down one's life, be no more, perish, be lost, go the way of the flesh, go the way of all flesh, go to glory, go to one's last resting place, go to meet one's maker, cross the great divide, cross the styx from farm to fork (or table) Used to refer to the various processes in the food chain from agricultural production to consumption. a catering industry initiative that allows certified traceability of fresh meat and eggs from farm to fork as modifier each of these countries has farm-to-fork legislation Example sentencesExamples It helps to ensure that food is safe, from farm to fork. According to the company, it controls the temperature of food products "from farm to fork". Commissioner Byrne refers to the feed hygiene package as "the missing link" in the farm-to-fork approach to food safety. Miss Mills said she was glad the report had brought to the public's attention 'the systematic failures from farm to fork'. These include the food production and processing operations that occur from farm to table. The North Central Initiative for Small Farm Profitability, a regional project based at NU's Center for Applied Rural Innovation, is a four-state, multi-institutional, farm-to-fork initiative. Everyone in the farm-to-fork food safety system has a responsibility to reduce risk. To meet these requirements companies need to be able to trace their products through every stage from farm to fork. But from farm to table, the industry could well lose a quarter of a billion dollars. Unless far-reaching measures are taken to address consumer concerns 'from farm to fork', the crisis will only deepen. sell off the farm informal Sell the capital assets of a country to foreign interests. the government is happy to keep selling off the farm Example sentencesExamples There is, however, growing disquiet in the community about what many see as selling off the farm. The union is calling for appropriate levels of funding for the Service rather than selling off the farm for so-called short-term financial relief. Not selling off the farm seems a good idea for maximizing national independence. "We are selling off the farm and pretty soon there won't be any farm left," he said. Critics within the oil industry say that the government is selling the farm, and that it should have confined the international oil companies to oilfields which had been discovered but not developed. Derivatives farmable adjectiveˈfɑːməb(ə)lˈfɑrməb(ə)l Most of the farmable land, in the middle of the country, is used as grazing pastures for livestock. Example sentencesExamples China has about 20 percent of the world's population, but only 7 percent of the world's farmable land. With less than 3 percent of its land farmable and little industry, Chad is a desperately poor country. One hundred sixty of those acres are farmable, and about 80 of those are currently being farmed by a dozen thriving, independent farm businesses with scores of employees and thousands - if not tens of thousands - of customers. In addition, windmills, called ‘polder mills,’ pump excess underground water to keep these areas dry and farmable. Origin 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 sense 3 of the verb, which later gave rise to 'to subcontract' (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. firm from Middle English: Firm meaning ‘not yielding to pressure’ comes from Latin firmus, also the root of farm (Middle English), which originally meant a tax or rent. Firm meaning ‘a company or business’ has the same root, but the immediate origin is different. The Latin word had also given rise to Italian firma ‘confirmed by signature’, and in the late 16th century this was adopted into English to mean ‘an autograph or signature’. Over time it came to mean the name under which business was transacted by an organization, as in ‘trading under the firm of “Grant & Co.”’. Finally, in the late 18th century, firm became the term for a company. Rhymes alarm, arm, Bairam, balm, barm, becalm, calm, charm, embalm, forearm, Guam, harm, imam, ma'am, malm, Montcalm, Notre-Dame, palm, psalm, qualm, salaam, smarm noun.1 phr. Definition of farm in US English: farm nounfärmfɑrm 1An area of land and its buildings used for growing crops and rearing animals, typically under the control of one owner or manager. 农场；牧场；饲养场 Example sentencesExamples Private cars and visitors, too, must comply if they visit farms in the area. Some species of waterfowl adapted to feeding on rice, barley, lettuce, and other crops grown on farms in California. In 2002 he bought neighbouring farms and his estate is now 2500 acres. He says that 200,000-acre factory farms fit his vision of what agriculture should be. But the ultimate cost will be the tragic demise of small family farms around the world. The highlight of my summers was going out to my uncle's farm about three miles outside the town. She is one of four children who grew up on their father's farm in the south. The City of Hamburg owns two large organic farms. The 37-year-old farm labourer has one week left to find a home. The students of the school were told about the need for preserving farm animals. I have certainly come across studies and examples where badly managed larger scale farms have damaged the environment. Items sold were mostly local and seasonal, farm produce or locally made artefacts. Long active in the community, he has operated a family farm for 30 years. Total land in farms, at 46,400 acres, is unchanged from last year. Your neighbour brings you back a sack of potatoes from his uncle's farm. He put my grandfather's farm up for sale and had an offer on it. Joseph began work as a farm labourer and the family settled into Canterbury life. My uncles' farm was one of three farms on a private road. Only 20 percent of the small family farms in the area are left. Every evening the animals will be taken to a farm on the outskirts of Dublin where they can rest overnight. Synonyms smallholding, holding, farmstead, steading, grange, plantation, estate 1.1 The main dwelling place on a farm; a farmhouse. 农场住宅区；农舍 a half-timbered farm 一座露明木架的农舍。 Example sentencesExamples He called at several big houses as well as farms and cottages, usually selling out before arriving ‘home’. But these programmes were to be paid for by local taxpayers, taxed through the rates due on houses, farms, factories, and offices. It ranges across the industrial and domestic spectrum from factories and offices to the the farm or the home. They visited farms, museums and castle sites and had a very enjoyable time accompanied by their teachers. You could build schools, farms, or factories that will provide for these people far into the future. He added that this goes for houses, flats, farms, factories and offices. Threshfield, it was said, consisted of 17 houses, four farms, a shop, a pub and a chapel. Like Winnie, the residents of the 16 houses and three farms on Castley Lane, Pool-in-Wharfedale, near Otley, would not choose to live anywhere else. They also have a residential farm which houses up to 15 young people, and have various other services to help homeless people get into good accommodation. There has been a flurry of school trips, including London Zoo, farms, museums and galleries and lots of visiting theatre groups. Of course it's not easy to read a fast-moving plane's registration number as it roars and dives low over houses, farms and factories. In all, the trust has some 300 private houses and cottages plus 90 farms in the Lake District, all of which are likely to need distinctive local stone for maintenance in the future. It has established numerous farms, stores, and restaurants. Village life revolved round the church, two farms and the local pub, the Old Bell Inn. We have jobs, shops, houses, farms, a church, schools. Each age built something they thought lasting - fortress, farms, railway, church or quarry - but all have given way. She and her husband then joined their daughter and son-in-law in transforming Blunsdon House Hotel from a farm into a guesthouse and then into the large establishment it is today. Key documents have been hidden in farms, homes and mosques. Since they have to be read regularly, they are placed in post offices, farms, radio stations, lighthouses, airports, etc and mostly in towns and cities. More than 40 of these cottages were built by the end of the 19th century together with a church, school, stores, workshops, a farm and even a fire station. 1.2with modifier A place for breeding a particular type of animal or producing a specified crop. 养殖场；种植场 a fish farm 养鱼场。 Example sentencesExamples My grandfather's horse farm contained all sorts of breeds. The group has an option to buy a chicken farm where it wants to build a sophisticated textile factory. Dubbed the queen of science fiction, she lives next door in Dragonhold Underhill, her rolling stud farm. It is the foremost fish breeding farm in Europe and they take so much care over the fish and the area. Since that business where a woman's remains were dug up because her grandchildren ran a guinea pig farm, the Animal Rights mob have been persona non grata in our neck of the woods. I am sure there must be a few good/healthy salmon fish farms. The owners of a new stud farm on green belt land are being allowed to extend the buildings. So, she is just trying to build a better poultry farm with the help of the whole village. He grew up on a grape and citrus farm at Robinvale, on the Murray River in north-west Victoria. She coordinates preventative medicine programs and pathology at Hagen's parrot breeding farm and research institute. There's an ice rink, cinema, theatre, even a deer farm and a whisky museum. Visiting the pig farm will bring grief and loss into sharp focus once again. He owns the well-known breeding and stallion farm, Ballylinch Stud home of the legendary Tetrarch and part of the Mount Juliet Estate. The decision to turn the site into a lavender farm and distillery is likely to be welcomed by locals who have long fought to ensure the land is put to good use. The country's 300 salmon farms produce 160,000 tonnes of fish a year. But these people aren't, after all, poultry farm workers. He owns the largest Tilapia fish farm in the Philippines with 10 million fishes. You could say that the farmers who run intensive poultry farms deserve criticism for not looking after animals properly. At 1,500 acres, Hollesley Bay is the largest jail in the prison estate and has its own dairy herd, stud farm and arable crops. They said I broke into a nearby rabbit farm and slew about two dozen. Synonyms ranch, range 1.3with modifier An establishment at which something is produced or processed. 生产（或加工）企业 an energy farm 能源企业。 Example sentencesExamples Hundreds of objections to plans to build the wind farm have been made. We get our milk from 33 small dairy farms located in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. I asked the people there about the large windmill farm east of the Crowsnest Pass in Southern Alberta. Six years ago this hillside and the lowland beneath it was farmland grazed by the dairy herd that was part of Kilmeaden Cheese Factory's model farm. Previous attempts by local entrepreneurs to establish broiler farms were foiled by dumping below cost from the large producers in South Africa. The 100-acre wind farm near Strabane is currently capable of producing 6.6 kilo watts of power per hour. At Suzhou City in the Jiangsu province, he visited a fresh water pearl farm and factor and said he was impressed with the techniques used by the Chinese farmers. On one hand the government takes on money from JBIC and on the other it is promoting the destructive prawn farm cultivation. Besides the skydiving side of the business, the owner, 36, also runs an organic dairy farm. But those benefits disappear if the wind farms are owned by a utility. Any company of their capitalization that can't manage to run a server farm successfully has serious internal management problems. And he bought an organic dairy farm in Wales. The welcoming committee is pure science fiction, a towering wind energy farm of sleek white windmills, five storeys high and filling the valley's entire widescreen width. At a Kurow dairy farm owned by Meridian Energy, this stray voltage was found to be around 1.5 volts. Ever anxious to learn more, the members changed tack and headed for Carne to visit the Wind Mill farm which was in total contrast to the experience in the Heritage Park. verbfärmfɑrm 1no object Make one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock. 经营农场（或牧场等）；种田，务农 he has farmed organically for five years 他用有机肥料栽培作物已有五年了。 Example sentencesExamples In Belize, they are the poorest of the poor, most living by subsistence farming. All that is consistent with the government's commitment to environmentally-friendly farming. He is one of a dwindling number of farmers who depend sorely on farming for a living. A small coffee industry and subsistence farming counterbalance the poverty of the land reserves. There are still a lot of hungry farmers out there who want to make their living from farming. In the last year Jay has decided he might want to farm full-time. He said he didn't go into art expecting a career and figured he would be earning a living from farming, gardening, or labouring. We thought anyone who was making a living from farming was farming conventionally. Zambian vernacular architecture is integrated with nature in an agricultural society of subsistence farming. But then he farmed for a living as had his father and grandfather before him. I am also aware that New Zealand has made its living by doing farming in a very functional and technologically targeted way. He's farmed organically since 1983 and has been a certified organic grower since 1995. Most Quechua rely on subsistence farming for their livelihood. He farmed in partnership with his father, and for a few years also with his older brother Eric. Most people farmed for a living, and others took care of all necessary needs in the community. For example, a century ago about 80 percent of the population worked the fields while today only a few percent pursue farming for a living. Under the new scheme individuals will be allowed to farm in partnership with their parents under a formal partnership arrangement. State-owned railways and state-funded irrigation schemes helped make farming viable on this far-flung frontier. In fifty years time it appears there will be very few people in this county earning their living from farming on a full time basis. Wayne and Ruth are looking creatively for new ways to make farming viable in western North Carolina. Synonyms be a farmer, practise farming, cultivate the land, till the land, work the land, till the soil, rear livestock, do agricultural work 1.1with object Use (land) for growing crops and rearing animals, especially commercially. 在（土地）上经营农场（或牧场等） Example sentencesExamples Many conventionally farmed soils around here barely have 1 to 2 percent organic matter. Indians grew the sugar in the west and farmed their land with great quantities of artificial fertilizers. This was discussed at length and it was strongly felt that the person who rented or actively farmed the land should be the benefactor in future. The latest statistics showed that around one in six farmhouses in the region have been sold to people who had no intention of farming the land themselves. The land was farmed for years, then was changed for residential development. Male workers all had to spend a certain number of days a year working on government projects, such as farming state-owned land. Campaigners are also lobbying the government to increase the percentage of organically farmed land. It is really a culture of farming where food and farming the land are the center of the celebration of human culture. Together she and her husband farmed the ranch land, and she bore seven children. They continued to farm the land but eventually that all stopped. To do this, you need to have been actively farming the land for a minimum of two years and to produce accounts to back this up. But although peasants farmed all the land in 1800, they often owned less than half of it. He resided just across the road from Burke's Shop where he farmed his land. He also farmed the land and was well versed in many aspects of the farming scene. You can structure your conservation easement so that you may still build one or more houses, farm the land and hunt wild animals. He farmed some land, growing much of what my mother served our family at dinner time. In 1903, one hundred years ago, most people in Ireland lived in the countryside, farmed the land, cultivated the food they ate and had very little extra money. People had been forced out of farming their land and got the ‘cheque in the post.’ Bob farmed the land where the couple's home now stands. Joyance missed the days when she and her husband and young son had farmed the land her house sat upon. Synonyms cultivate, bring under cultivation, till, work, plough, dig, plant 1.2with object Breed or grow commercially (a type of livestock or crop, especially one not normally domesticated or cultivated) 商业化养殖（牲畜，尤指非驯养的动物）；商业化种植（作物，尤指非培育的作物） ostriches are farmed in South Africa and Australia Example sentencesExamples I rejoice in the sustainable food source that is farmed livestock. They have farmed their dairy herd at Gorsehill Abbey Farm for many years. In many cases households switch to farming crops that are less labour intensive, but these crops, the FAO notes, are often also less nutritious. I can't be reassured that the liver in this isn't from intensively farmed animals. The scientists tracked the source of the pollutants to the fish meal fed to intensively farmed salmon. Instead, family farming has remained prevalent because people have adjusted by farming different crops and combining agriculture with other ways of making a living. The grim reality is that the only way to save them is to farm them commercially. Two of them were game farms and the rest were used to farm crops and livestock. These movement restrictions apply to all farmed livestock within that area. The fish-farming industry was brought to its knees by some report saying that eating farmed salmon can kill you. Biodiverse farming involves simultaneously farming several crops. Castor plants that are free of ricin and allergens could renew interest in farming this crop. Drawing on his experience raising tilapia on fish farms in South America years ago, Warner embarked on an effort to farm the breed in big indoor tanks. As someone who farms arable crops near Swindon, I am only too aware that farmers are struggling. Most salmon sold at supermarkets in the United States are farmed salmon, grown with feed derived from soybeans. Not only is the farmed salmon crop nutritionally inferior to its wild counterpart; it is also known to be a dangerous source of contamination of the marine environment. We deserve the grid we have - after all we value commercially farmed oysters over human life and comforts. Like all farmed livestock, salmon are regularly checked by veterinarians and occasionally require the use of licensed medicines. Farmers began to use a new system, the three-field system, to farm their crops. Synonyms grow, cultivate, raise, plant, tend, bring on, harvest 2farm someone/something outwith object Send out or subcontract work to others. 将…外包（或分包） it saves time and money to farm out some writing work to specialized companies 将一些文字工作外包给专门公司去做既省时，又省钱。 Example sentencesExamples All the component projects are farmed out across the country. But if a company farms its work out to independent contractors, it can rid itself of costly expenses such as disability and social security taxes. Booking arrangements will be farmed out to private retail outlets, or passengers will be forced to use the Internet to make reservations. If every year a handful of issues were farmed out to assemblies like this one, one issue per assembly, it would be a job that could be done at a few hours a week. There is no technical reason why farming it out to private providers or mutuals cannot work. Trained inmates can be farmed out to local businesses, providing a good service in return for on-the-job training. So he should immediately farm this whole record out to all kinds of good producers who could remix it entirely and try to make it better. Full-time positions are being farmed out as contract work. Professional crossword makers farm their puzzles out to experts for a test drive before they are published. Rather, they are automatically farmed out to subcontractors, who ship finished products directly to customers. Many tasks have been farmed out to private, unaccountable contractors. Once operations are farmed out to a private investor, soon only the tracks and railbed will be publicly-owned, he said. All too frequently major issues that need decisions are farmed out to outsiders to make reports. Issues that threaten to create permanent obstacles are farmed out to commissions so they can be dealt with down the line. The deputy prime minister warned it was a mistake to think entire departments would be farmed out to the regions. In big companies, work is off-loaded to customers, or their problems are farmed out to call centers with productivity incentives designed to limit each call. Spare ones will be farmed out to other universities which have expressed an interest in getting involved. A lot of government services are farmed out to the private sector. The lesser pieces are farmed out to their student accommodation. Protection products and pensions feature strongly, while tax advice on more complex transactions tends to be farmed out to tax specialists. Synonyms contract out, outsource, assign to others, subcontract, delegate 2.1 Arrange for a child or other dependent person to be looked after by someone, usually for payment. 把（孩子）寄养出去 Example sentencesExamples Her father's alcoholism plunged the family into poverty so humiliating that Dolly was farmed out to various generous strangers for upbringing. Who, after all, would choose to work and farm their kids out in the morning if they could be in the same financial position while staying at home? Whoever farmed me out for adoption put a lot of work into covering up everything about where - or who - I came from. Synonyms have fostered, have cared for, send to a childminder, put in care 2.2dated Send a sports player to a farm team. Example sentencesExamples He first played for York in the 1998 season when he was farmed out to Huntington Stadium on loan from Castleford. So he was farmed out for a month with instructions to delay his swing a bit, go to right field more often, improve his bunting and reduce strikeouts. It looked even bleaker when Steve bought in six summer signings and he was farmed out to Sunderland on loan. The RFU, not the clubs, would employ players and farm them out to the clubs. 3historical with object Allow someone to collect and keep the revenues from (a tax) on payment of a fee. 〈史〉（收取一定费用）将（税收）包出 the customs had been farmed to the collector for a fixed sum 在收取一笔固定款项后，关税已包给收税员征收。 Example sentencesExamples The market was supervised by a warden and by the fifteenth century that officer was farming revenues due the city from the market. The sum offered by Andocides and his associates was thirty-six talents, which (he claims) still allowed them a small profit in farming the tax. Phrases bet the farm informal Risk everything that one owns on a bet, investment, or enterprise. they're betting the farm on this merger bid buy the farm informal Die. Synonyms pass away, pass on, lose one's life, depart this life, expire, breathe one's last, draw one's last breath, meet one's end, meet one's death, lay down one's life, be no more, perish, be lost, go the way of the flesh, go the way of all flesh, go to glory, go to one's last resting place, go to meet one's maker, cross the great divide, cross the styx from farm to fork (or table) Used to refer to the various processes in the food chain from agricultural production to consumption. a catering industry initiative that allows certified traceability of fresh meat and eggs from farm to fork as modifier each of these countries has farm-to-fork legislation Example sentencesExamples But from farm to table, the industry could well lose a quarter of a billion dollars. According to the company, it controls the temperature of food products "from farm to fork". It helps to ensure that food is safe, from farm to fork. To meet these requirements companies need to be able to trace their products through every stage from farm to fork. Commissioner Byrne refers to the feed hygiene package as "the missing link" in the farm-to-fork approach to food safety. Everyone in the farm-to-fork food safety system has a responsibility to reduce risk. These include the food production and processing operations that occur from farm to table. Miss Mills said she was glad the report had brought to the public's attention 'the systematic failures from farm to fork'. Unless far-reaching measures are taken to address consumer concerns 'from farm to fork', the crisis will only deepen. The North Central Initiative for Small Farm Profitability, a regional project based at NU's Center for Applied Rural Innovation, is a four-state, multi-institutional, farm-to-fork initiative. Origin 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 firm. 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. noun.1 phr.
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