farmer

[FarmĀ·er]

An expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857 1915)

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One who farms

Noun
a person who operates a farm

Noun
an expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915)

Noun
United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)


n.
One who farms

n.
One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant.

n.
One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman.

n.
One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues.

n.
The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.


Farmer

Farm"er , n. [Cf. F. fermier.] One who farms; as: (a) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. Smart. (b) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman. (c) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues. (d) (Mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown. Farmer-general [F. fermier-general], one to whom the right of levying certain taxes, in a particular district, was farmed out, under the former French monarchy, for a given sum paid down. -- Farmers' satin, a light material of cotton and worsted, used for coat linings. McElrath. -- The king's farmer (O. Eng. Law), one to whom the collection of a royal revenue was farmed out. Burrill.

One who farms

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Usage Examples

Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.

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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?

If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

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