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farm

verb [T]
 
 
/fɑːm/ US  /fɑːrm/

Definition

to use land for growing crops and/or keeping animals as a business: The Stamfords have farmed this land for over a hundred years.Farming - general words
(Definition of farm verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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