Definition of cultivation
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: culture, refinement
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: the act or art of cultivating or tilling
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Recent Examples of cultivation from the Web
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MedMen on June 6 paid $53 million for Treadwell Nursery's five-acre cultivation facility in Eustis, giving it the right to cultivate the drug and open the stores.
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Last week, the commission issued its first provisional license to a cultivation facility in Milford operated by Sira Naturals, another medical marijuana company.
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State regulators have awarded only a single recreational license, for Sira Naturals, a cultivation facility in Milford.
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All these small tracts are now under cultivation and supporting people whose numbers would astonish anyone who would take the pains to hunt them up.
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Through its own gravitational pull, through its cultivation of cooler-than-usual celebrities and carefully manicured mystique, Supreme has long been sitting where the rest of fashion has gone in recent years.
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Taxes have been levied on cannabis at nearly every point between cultivation and retail sales.
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Price supports also encourage the cultivation of the few crops that the state really does buy.
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Oklahoma was also deciding whether to legalize the cultivation, possession and use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
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First Known Use of cultivation
1553
cultivation Synonyms
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parochialism, provincialism, rusticity, unsophistication;
boorishness, churlishness, clownishness, coarseness, crudeness, vulgarity;
Related Words
education, erudition, intellectualism, intellectuality, knowledge, learning, literacy, scholarship;
cosmopolitanism, sophistication, urbanity;
breeding, genteelness, gentility, manners;
CULTIVATION Defined for Kids
Definition of cultivation for Students
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: the act or process of preparing the soil for the raising of crops
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: refinement 2
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