factory farm

noun

: a large industrialized farm

especially : a farm on which large numbers of livestock are raised indoors in conditions intended to maximize production at minimal cost

factory farming noun

Examples of factory farm in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Direct Action Everywhere said the protest was part of an ongoing campaign urging Erewhon to stop selling products tied to factory farms where activists allege criminal animal abuse has occurred. —City News Service, Daily News, 20 May 2026

It will be used to invalidate our state laws and perpetuate a system of animal cruelty that predominantly serves the interests of factory farms. —John Cleveland, Boston Herald, 7 Apr. 2026

Dani Replogle, a staff attorney for Food and Water Watch, a nonprofit for sustainable food and clean water, said factory farm operators try to plan manure and fertilizer applications when precipitation is unlikely. —ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026

Finally, somehow, some 10 million tons of manure produced at California factory farms is unaccounted for. —Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1851, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for factory farm

• alarm
• disarm
• forearm
• gendarme
• nonfarm
• rearm
• arm
• charm
• harm
• firearm
• underarm