1 an area of land, and the buildings on it, used for growing crops and/or keeping animals:
a 200-acre farm * a farm worker / labourer * farm buildings / machinery * to live / work on a farm
2 the main house on a farm, where the farmer lives
3 (especially in compounds) a place where particular fish or animals are bred:
a trout / mink / pig farm
seealsoBATTERYFARM, COLLECTIVEFARM, DAIRY, FACTORYFARM, HEALTHFARM, TRUCKFARM, WINDFARM
verb to use land for growing crops and/or keeping animals: [V] The family has farmed in Kent for over two hundred years. * [VN] They farm dairy cattle. * He farmed 200 acres of prime arable land. * organically farmed produce
PHRASALVERBS
farm sb<->out (to sb) (BrE, disapproving) to arrange for sb to be cared for by other people:
Her children were farmed out at an early age to childminders.
farm sb/sth<->out to sb to send out work for other people to do:
The company farms out a lot of work to freelancers.
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