(a. & n.) The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.
(a. & n.) The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.
(a. & n.) The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.
(a. & n.) Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.
(a. & n.) A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.
(a. & n.) A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.
(v. t.) To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
(v. t.) To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes.
(v. t.) To take at a certain rent or rate.
(v. t.) To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.
(v. i.) To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(2) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(3) Four patients with acute brucellosis are described, none of whom had any connexion with farming or milk industry, the source of infection being different in each case.
(4) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
(5) Forty-five enteropathogenic (enteropathogenic Escherichia coli-like) strains isolated in commercial rabbit farms were subdivided into four biotypes with the help of six carbohydrate fermentation tests, ornithine decarboxylase tests, and motility tests.
(6) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
(7) The fact that proteolytic activity could be detected within 2 days at 7 degrees C is significant, since bulk cooled milk is normally held for 3 to 4 days at temperatures between 4 and 7 degrees C at farms or factories prior to processing.
(8) Caworth Farms mice, 3 to 4 months of age, received amiloride by daily intraperitoneal injection for 7 days before the left kidney was removed and for an additional 4 days after nephrectomy.
(9) I think we are still trying to understand all that and I think that fits under the broader topic of social licence and what bringing in automation to an area does to that region as a whole, which we don’t quite know yet.” Could carbon farming be the answer for a 'clapped-out' Australia?
(10) The first stop in this arid place of poor farms and orchards clinging to the dry soil is Rafah, cut off by the border from its Palestinian counterpart.
(11) My [other cousin] has got everything other than tanks at his farm," he said.
(12) The Palestinian Bedouin family live in Az-Zayyem, inside Area C, farming goats and camels for milk.
(13) The environment secretary, Liz Truss , has stripped farmers of subsidies for solar farms, saying they are a “blight” that was pushing food production overseas.
(14) Nevertheless, there are farms on which satisfactory results are obtained in rearing calves with low Ig levels.
(15) The animals were sold only to smaller farms (less than 500 sows for breeding) with concentional keeping patterns which were kept under constant diagnostic supervision.
(16) Successful tests were carried out on 84 farms and 68% of these had resistant worms present.
(17) The present study investigated the effects of family economic stress on parental support and adolescent maladjustment in 622 9th through 12th graders in a Midwestern farm community.
(18) Phil Barlow Nottingham • Reading about the problems caused by a lack of toilets reminded me of the harvest camps my father’s Birmingham school organised in the Vale of Evesham during the war, where the sixth-formers spent weeks picking fruit and vegetables on farms.
(19) The US farm bill is a multi-billion dollar piece of legislation that controls the federal government's spending on farm subsidies, food for the domestic poor, agriculture conservation programmes, and overseas food aid , among other things.
(20) In farm B, 16 S. suis strains were recovered from a total of 70 samples.
Lease
Definition:
(v. i.) To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.
(v. t.) To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out.
(v. t.) To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner.
(v. t.) A demise or letting of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years, or at will, or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation.
(v. t.) The contract for such letting.
(v. t.) Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
(2) In 2005, Westbrook bought the £190m head lease for Dolphin Square, once the largest block of flats in the world with a colourful list of former residents, including more than 70 MPs, at least 10 Lords and a number of intelligence agency personnel.
(3) The Labour leadership election gained a new lease of life today as parliament's first black female MP, Diane Abbott , entered the race and the party extended the deadline for nominations, giving extra time for new candidates to emerge.
(4) In 2012, the state and county committed $226m to the team in a new lease deal.
(5) In addition, another 25 million acres of state and federal lands in the U.S. Arctic — onshore and off — are open to oil and gas leasing; of that,13.5 million acres have already been leased.
(6) A student who lost her leg in the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash says she has been given a new lease of life by a hi-tech prosthetic leg and that she is stronger for her harrowing experience.
(7) Many articles published on the topic of lease financing point only to the benefits that may be derived.
(8) The MD-83 aircraft, owned by Spanish company Swiftair and leased by Algeria's flagship carrier, disappeared from radar less than an hour after it took off from Ouagadougou for Algiers.
(9) Although providing a new lease on life is very rewarding within itself, it can also be stressful for all involved.
(10) His lieutenants have floated the possibility that whoever takes over our roads could get them on 100-year leases – which would just be transferring a public asset to some private-sector oligarch.
(11) The retailer has also taken a £70m hit from onerous leases, and distribution centre closures in Harlow and Weybridge cost £30m.
(12) NT chief minister Adam Giles said the decision to lease the port rather than sell allowed the government to ensure conditions are upheld.
(13) But landlords often put your rent up massively at the end of your lease, meaning you have to move every two years."
(14) The village of Point Hope, Alaska, joined by numerous native and environmental groups, is now challenging offshore development on the 2.9 million acres in the Chukchi Sea, contending that MMS violated federal environmental laws when it conducted the lease sales.
(15) Her rent was increased by $20 as soon as her fixed-term lease ended, despite already being more expensive than similar properties in the area.
(16) That approval was therefore invalid, she said, adding the company was yet to obtain a mining lease for Alpha.
(17) But as Kathimerini.com reports, the plan is to definitely to lease the islands, not sell them forever: The fund reviewed 562 of the estimated 6,000 islands and islets under Greek sovereignty.
(18) The company hired by Royal Dutch Shell plc in 2012 to drill on petroleum leases in the Chukchi — Sugarland, Texas-based Noble Drilling US LLC — in December agreed to pay $12.2m after pleading guilty to eight felony environmental and maritime crimes on board the Noble Discoverer.
(19) However, Adani has turned to the national native title tribunal to override this objection, which would allow the state government to issue a lease for the mine.
(20) Contracts with a Lend Lease-led consortium were signed last week and construction is due to begin this year.