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FEE FARM, Eng(law)
farm(1)(dictionary)
Buy the Farm(money)
farm(medicine)
farm(2)(dictionary)
fat farm(dictionary)
fee-farm(dictionary)
farm(dictionary)
collective farm(encyclopedia)

farm (iou)



farm verb2. [f¨»:m] LME.
[from FARM noun.]
verb trans. Rent (land etc.). LME-E18.
verb trans. Collect the fees or proceeds of (a tax, office, etc.) on payment of a fixed sum. M16.
M. Pattison The Tidemann farmed..the tin-mines belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall.
verb trans.
a. Let (land) to a tenant. Also foll. by out. Now rare. L16.
b. Allow a person to collect and keep the revenues from (a tax) or the proceeds of (an undertaking etc.) in return for a fixed sum. Also foll. by out. E17.
c. Hire out the labour of (a person etc.). Also foll. by out. E17.
verb trans. Take over, for a fee, the care of (a person, esp. (derog.) a child), maintenance of (an institution etc.), or performance of (a task etc.); (freq. foll. by out) arrange for another or others so to take over the care etc. of, delegate (work) to a subcontractor. M17.
Dickens The parish authorities..resolved, that Oliver should be 'farmed'. New Statesman One term 'farmed out' with a man tutor. Globe & Mail (Toronto) How could you get a strike going when the work can be so easily farmed out somewhere else?
verb intrans. Be a farmer, till the soil. E18.
verb trans. Cultivate, till. E19.
verb trans. & intrans. Cricket. Of a batsman: contrive to receive most of (the bowling). M20.
farmable adjective that may be farmed or leased; suitable for farming: E17.