1. A tract of land cultivated for the purpose of agricultural production. 2a. A tract of land devoted to the raising and breeding of domestic animals. b. An area of water devoted to the raising, breeding, or production of a specific aquatic animal: a trout farm; an oyster farm.3. An area of land devoted to the storage of a commodity or the emplacement of a group of devices: a tank farm; an antenna farm.4.Baseball A minor-league club affiliated with a major-league club for the training of recruits and the maintenance of temporarily unneeded players. 5.Obsoletea. The system of leasing out the rights of collecting and retaining taxes in a certain district. b. A district so leased.
VERB:
Inflected forms: farmed, farm·ing, farms
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To cultivate or produce a crop on. 2. To pay a fixed sum in order to have the right to collect and retain profits from (a business, for example). 3. To turn over (a business, for example) to another in return for the payment of a fixed sum.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To engage in farming.
PHRASAL VERB:
farm out1. To send (work, for example) from a central point to be done elsewhere. 2.Baseball To assign (a player) to a minor-league team.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, lease, leased property, from Old French ferme, from Medieval Latin firma, fixed payment, from Latin firmre, to establish, from firmus, firm. See dher- in Appendix I.
färm
re, to establish, from firmus, firm. See dher- in Appendix I.
