farming

farming
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(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. agriculture, tillage, cultivation, husbandry, farm management, ranching, sharecropping, homesteading, plantation, horticulture, business of operating a farm, geoponics, agronomics, soil culture, agronomy, pomology, apiculture, viticulture, grazing, livestock raising, renting, leasing, operating, taking up a claim, hydroponics, tank farming, tray agriculture, tenancy, growing, cropraising.
Farming operations include: dressing the ground, fertilizing, manuring, plowing, tilling, disking, listing, harrowing, seeding, sowing, planting, drilling, cultivating, cultipacking, weeding, hoeing, transplanting, harvesting, reaping, gleaning, threshing, winnowing, haying, raking, tedding, binding, combining, stacking, breaking, shocking, husking, digging, picking, curing, strip farming, rotating crops, irrigating, irrigation, contour farming, milking, breeding, grazing, pasturing, herding, feeding, stocking, fattening, marketing, spraying, disinfecting, picking, selecting, grading, clipping, shearing.
II
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
husbandry, agriculture, agronomy, cultivation, crop-raising, sharecropping, harvesting, agribusiness, growing, tillage, working the land, homesteading, ranching. ''The first and most precious of all the arts.''—Thomas Jefferson. ''A school of patience: you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.''—Emile C. Alain.

English dictionary for students. 2013.

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