Synonyms:
agribusiness, agriculture, factory_farm
Meaning: a large-scale farming enterprise
Synonyms:
farming, agriculture, husbandry
Meaning: the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
Usage examples
"While grain was gratuitous, agriculture was impossible.
Machinery, therefore, has affected manufactures much more immediately and greatly than it has agriculture.
They had carried irrigation, agriculture, and the cutting of gems to a point equal to that of the Old World.
The state of agriculture and the populousness of a country have been considered as nearly connected with each other.
They raised material questions, questions of agriculture, of industry, of commerce, almost to the dignity of a religion.
They regarded agriculture as the principal interest of the nation, and held great agricultural fairs and festivals for the interchange of the productions of the farmers.
The connection between agriculture and the water supply was too obvious to escape the early symbolists, and many other proofs of this than those referred to could be given.
Under the old, almost fixed, conditions in agriculture such a lease was equitable, but when prices are rapidly changing and when new methods are being introduced, it gives rise to great hardships.
The practice of agriculture was undergoing a transformation; in all directions grazing was being substituted for tillage, and the number of agricultural labourers was greatly reduced by the change.
Game was very scarce; and, without agriculture, the country could support only a scanty and scattered population like that which maintained a struggling existence in the wilderness of the lower St. Lawrence.