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farming en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈfɐ̞ːmɪŋ/ (Australia)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈfɑɹmɪŋ/ (Canada, General-American)
  • /ˈfɑːmɪŋ/ (General-South-African, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From farm + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to the agricultural business.
  2. (not-comparable) Raising livestock or fish.

farming en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈfɐ̞ːmɪŋ/ (Australia)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈfɑɹmɪŋ/ (Canada, General-American)
  • /ˈfɑːmɪŋ/ (General-South-African, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From farm + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The business of cultivating land, raising stock, etc.
    • Farming was among the earliest of civilized man's occupations, [...] 1945 April 18, American Historical Association, United States Armed Forces Institute, Shall I Take Up Farming? (GI Roundtable), number 35, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 2:
    • Gardening, then, is a sort of refined farming upon a limited scale. 1833, James Rennie, “The Word Gardening”, in Alphabet of Scientific Gardening for the Use of Beginners, London: William Orr, page 1:
  2. (countable, uncountable) A farming operation; a farm, or instance of farming on a piece of land.
    • We discharge them also of all Farmings of Benefices, and Church Lands, or Goods, of which they were spoiled by those who Commanded under their General. 1692, John Quick, Synodicon in Gallia reformata:
    • After Agricultural Foundation Law was enacted in 1961, the expansion of scale of farm business, the improvement of agricultural foundation, the spread of diversified farming with livestock, the mechanization and the rationalization of farming have accelerated viable farmings. 1986, Science reports of the Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba., page 24:
    • The problem has been enhanced more so because more agricultural farmings are spreading out leaving but slight margins for cattle farming and fears are expressed by farmers upon the possible cattle intrusion into the farmings ... 1997, Hamlet Bareh, The History and Culture of the Khasi People, →ISBN, page 433:

Forms

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Deriveds

dairy farming · hoe-farming · snow farming · electrofarming · skyfarming · truck farming · subsistence farming · aura farming · biofarming · dirt farming · unfarming · baby farming · tax farming · refarming · vertical farming · farming sim · data farming · gold farming · antifarming · intensive farming · organic farming · smart farming · bee farming · Farmington · nonfarming · proxy farming · aquafarming · microfarming · strip farming · factory farming · windfarming · landfarming · firestick farming · granny farming · mixed farming · fish farming · sharefarming · intensive animal farming

Synonyms

soil

farming en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈfɐ̞ːmɪŋ/ (Australia)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈfɑɹmɪŋ/ (Canada, General-American)
  • /ˈfɑːmɪŋ/ (General-South-African, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From farm + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of farm
    form of farm