an area of land and its buildings, used for growing crops and rearing animals:a farm of 100 acres [as modifier]:farm workers
a farmhouse:a half-timbered farm
[with modifier] a place for breeding a particular type of animal or producing a specified crop:a fish farm
[with modifier] a place devoted to producing or promoting something:an energy farm
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1 [no object] make one’s living by growing crops or keeping livestock:he has farmed organically for years
[with object] use (land) for growing crops and rearing animals:marshes are being drained in order to farm the land
[with object] breed or grow (a type of livestock or crop) commercially:ostriches are farmed in South Africa and Australia (as adjective farmed)farmed salmon
2 [with object] (farm someone/thing out) send out or subcontract work to others:it saves time and money to farm out some writing work to specialized companies
arrange for a child to be looked after by someone, usually for payment:the babies are farmed out for five years
dated send a sports player temporarily to another team in return for a fee:he was farmed out in 1938 and '39 and came back for two games in 1940
3 [with object] historical allow someone to collect and keep the revenues from (a tax) on payment of a fee:the customs had been farmed to the collector for a fixed sum
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
chiefly US used to refer to locally grown or produced food: [as modifier]:in San Francisco, farm-to-fork eating is a year-round affair
