farm club (or team)

Variant of farm

farm definition

farm (färm)

noun

    1. Obsolete a fixed sum payable at regular intervals, as rent or taxes
    2. the letting out, for a fixed amount, of the collection of taxes, with the privilege of keeping all that is collected
    3. the condition of being let out at a fixed rent
  2. a district of a country leased out by a government for the collection of taxes
  3. a piece of land (with house, barns, etc.) on which crops or animals are raised: orig., such land let out to tenants
  4. any place where certain things are raised a tract of water for raising fish is a fish farm
  5. Sports a minor-league team, esp. a baseball team, having an agreement with a major-league team to train its young or inexperienced players
    in full farm club (or team) farm club (or team)

Etymology: ME < OFr ferme < ML firma, fixed payment, farm < firmare, to farm, lease, orig., to make a contract < L, to make firm, secure < firmus, firm

transitive verb

  1. to cultivate (land)
  2. to cultivate or rear (plants or animals) on a farm
  3. to collect the taxes and other fees of (a business) on a commission basis or for a fixed amount
  4. to turn over to another for a fee

intransitive verb

to work on or operate a farm; raise crops or animals on a farm
farm Idioms

farm out

  1. to rent (land, a business, etc.) in return for a fixed payment
  2. to send (work) from a shop, office, etc. to workers on the outside
  3. to let out the labor of (a convict, etc.) for a fixed amount
  4. to destroy the fertility of (land), as by failing to rotate crops
  5. ☆ Baseball to assign to a farm ()

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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