Thesaurus: farm

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1. a. & n. The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.
2. a. & n. The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.
3. a. & n. The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.
4. a. & n. Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.
5. a. & n. A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.
6. a. & n. A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.
7. v. t. To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
8. v. t. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes.
9. v. t. To take at a certain rent or rate.
10. v. t. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.
11. v. i. To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.
12. n. workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit