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farming

24 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. farming
  2. farm
  3. aerial farming
  4. dry farming
  5. dryland farming
  6. fish-farming
  7. fur farming
  8. grassland farming
  9. ley farming
  10. mixed farming
  11. plowless farming
  12. scratch-farming
  13. strip farming
  14. stubble-mulch farming
  15. subsistence farming
  16. tank farming
  17. trash farming
  18. tree farming
  19. truck farming
  20. farm out
  21. baby farm
  22. factory farm
  23. fish farm
  24. oyster-farm

farm·ing

noun

: the job or business of running a farm

Full Definition of FARMING

:  the practice of agriculture or aquaculture
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Examples of FARMING

  1. <since an ancestor settled there in the 19th century, farming has been the only occupation for six generations of the family>

First Known Use of FARMING

1659

Related to FARMING

Synonyms
agriculture, husbandry

Rhymes with FARMING

charming

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