agriculture
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(noun) the class of people engaged in growing food |
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Related Words: class, social class, socio-economic class |
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(noun) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock |
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Synonyms: farming, husbandry |
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Related Words: animal husbandry, aquiculture, arboriculture, cultivation, dairy farming, dairying, gardening, horticulture, hydroponics, mixed farming, planting, ranching, strip cropping, subsistence farming, tree farming, truck farming |
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(noun) a large-scale farming enterprise |
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Synonyms: agribusiness |
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Related Words: business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise |
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(noun) the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862 |
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Synonyms: Agriculture Department, Department of Agriculture |
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Related Words: executive department |
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