Definitions for farms

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farms farm

Spelling: [fahrm]

IPA: /fɑrm/

Farms is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in farms (afmrs).

Definitions for farms

noun

1. a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
2. land or water devoted to the raising of animals, fish, plants, etc.:
3. a similar, usually commercial, site where a product is manufactured or cultivated:
4. the system, method, or act of collecting revenue by leasing a territory in districts.
5. a country or district leased for the collection of revenue.
6. a fixed yearly amount accepted from a person in view of local or district taxes that he or she is authorized to collect.
7. a tract of land on which an industrial function is carried out, as the drilling or storage of oil or the generation of electricity by solar power.
8. English History. the rent or income from leased property. the condition of being leased at a fixed rent; possession under lease; a lease.
9. Also called farm team, farm club. Chiefly Baseball. a team in a minor league that is owned by or affiliated with a major-league team, for training or keeping players until ready or needed.
10. Obsolete. a fixed yearly amount payable in the form of rent, taxes, or the like.

Idioms

1. buy the farm, Slang. to die or be killed.

Verb phrases

1. farm out, to assign (work, privileges, or the like) to another by financial agreement; subcontract; lease: to assign the care of (a child or dependent person) to another: Chiefly Baseball. to assign (a player) to a farm. to exhaust (farmland) by overcropping. to drill (oil or gas wells), especially by subcontract on land owned or leased by another.

verb (used with object)

1. to cultivate (land).
2. to raise (animals, fish, plants, etc.) on land or in water.
3. to take the proceeds or profits of (a tax, undertaking, etc.) on paying a fixed sum.
4. to let or lease (taxes, revenues, an enterprise, etc.) to another for a fixed sum or a percentage (often followed by out).
5. to let or lease the labor or services of (a person) for hire.
6. to contract for the maintenance of (a person, institution, etc.):

verb (used without object)

1. to cultivate the soil; operate a farm.

Origin of farms

1250-1300; Middle English ferme “lease, rented land, rent,” from Anglo-French, Old French, from Vulgar Latin ferma (unattested), derivative of fermāre (unattested) for Latin firmāre “to make

Examples for farms

When the farm is conquered, the victor is usually vanquished.

He negotiates with a hesitant Hershel who allows everyone to remain on the farm.

They also passed an outrageous farm Bill that subsidizes rich farmers and keeps domestic prices artificially high.

I have in mind one old chap who used to herd the sheep on my uncle's farm.

When Reid came on board, he had only leased part of the land to farm on; the deal did not include the house.

Or he might just have told the plain truth—that Father has a large Western farm.

At first Wales and Sanger conceived of Wikipedia merely as an adjunct to Nupedia, sort of like a feeder product or farm team.

The classic film that opens with a tornado sweeping through a Kansas farm made its debut 75 years ago in 1939.

It is true there was a fifth farm situated right in between the others.

She shrinks from her father's suggestion of a summer on the farm.