Farming

Definition

farm / fɑ:m / n ၁။ စိုက္ပ်ဳိးေမြးျမဴေရးၿခံ။ a 200-acre farm ❍ a farm labourer ❍ farm produce ❍ farm machinery. ၂။ စိုက္ပ်ဳိးေမြးျမဴေရးၿခံ။ ၿခံ။ get some eggs at the farm. ၃။ ေမြးျမဴေရးၿခံ။ a trout-/ mink- / pig-farm. See also BATTERY FARM, COLLECTIVE FARM, FACTORY FARM, HEALTH FARM v (က) စိုက္ပ်ဳိးသည္ (သို႔) ေမြးျမဴသည္။ He farms beef cattle. ❍ organically farmed produce. (ခ) စိုက္ပ်ဳိး ေမြးျမဴသည္။ intensively farmed land ❍ She farms 200 acres. ❏ farmer n လယ္ပိုင္ရွင္။ လယ္သမား။ စိုက္ပ်ဳိး ေမြးျမဴေရး သမား။ an organic farmer ❍ a dairy farmer ❍ peasant farmers. ❏ farm-hand n သူရင္းငွား။ ❏ farming n [U] စိုက္ပ်ဳိးေမြးျမဴေရး။ လယ္လုပ္ငန္း။ take up farming ❍ pig farming ❍ modern farming methods ❍ a farming community. ❏ farm sb out (to sb) [ PHRV ] ( derog esp Brit ) အငွား ေက်ာင္းခိုင္းသည္။ The children were farmed out to child minders at an early age. ❏ farm sth out (to sb) [ PHRV ] လက္ခစား ျဖန္႔ခ်သည္။ We farm out a lot of work to freelancers.

Examples

1. [on a farm] : Patrick worked on a neighbouring farm.
2. Farm workers/labourers
3. Farm buildings/machinery/implements
4. Farm animals/produce
5. A fish farm
6. Visitors often came to the farm at weekends.
7. We don't want to get a dog from a puppy farm as the animals are often treated badly.