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Farm
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Plural form
farms
Examples
A small stream runs through the farm, providing water for the crops.
02
a house where a farmer lives on a farm
to farm
01
to earn a living by cultivating crops or raising animals for food, goods, or other products
Intransitive
Grammatical Information
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
farm
3rd person singular
farms
Past simple
farmed
Past participle
farmed
Examples
She decided to farm full-time after years of working in the city.
02
to grow crops or raise animals using agricultural techniques to improve production
Transitive: to farm crops or livestock
Examples
The family farms wheat and corn on their land in the countryside.
03
to grant someone the right to collect and keep the revenues from a tax in exchange for a fee
Transitive: to farm a tax or custom revenue | to farm a tax or custom revenue to sb
Examples
They farmed the tax collection duties to a third-party agency.
