(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons are to raise the price they pay their suppliers for milk, bowing to growing pressure from dairy farmers who say the industry is in crisis.
(2) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(3) May is due to announce that Dennis Stevenson, a former HBOS chairman and a mental health campaigner, will lead a review alongside Paul Farmer, the chief executive of the mental health charity Mind.
(4) The environment secretary, Liz Truss , has stripped farmers of subsidies for solar farms, saying they are a “blight” that was pushing food production overseas.
(5) This could spell disaster for small farmers, says Million Belay, co-ordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.
(6) John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, said the landowners his group represents "are obviously not happy" that the beetles are being removed.
(7) Expect growing localised tensions around specific watersheds between one ethnic group and another, between farmers and cities, and so forth, he warns: “Rather than India versus Pakistan, it’s Karnataka versus Tamil Nadu over the allocation of a river that is shared between those two states.” The Water Stress Index , produced by UK risk analysis firm Maplecroft, provides an indication where water-related conflicts might be most likely to occur.
(8) The results indicate that pig farmers might have an occupational risk of toxoplasmosis.
(9) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
(10) Massive protests in the 1990s by Indian, Latin American and south-east Asian peasant farmers, indigenous groups and their supporters put the companies on the back foot, and they were reluctantly forced to shelve the technology after the UN called for a de-facto moratorium in 2000.
(11) Many adults' work schedules limited their ability to take their children to health sites (52.2% were farmers and 18.9% were traders).
(12) The increased knowledge of endocrinology, cytobiology and embryology has also made stock farmers familiar with biotechnology.
(13) Aware of FMNR's ability to build resilience, the WFP is giving food for work to 5,000 FMNR farmers in Kaffrine.
(14) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
(15) Mr Mutsa, typical of several million subsistence farmers who farm on average just 0.4 hectares (one acre) yet make up 85% of Malawi's agricultural production, cycled 30 miles to bring his daughter to the hospital in Nsanje, in the far south of Malawi, where four nurses work in its nutrition rehabilitation unit.
(16) Antibodies to immunoglobulins (Ig) M, G, and A against Yersinia enterocolitica serotypes O:3, O:5, O:8, and O:9 and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis serotypes I and III were analyzed by enzyme immunoassay of the serum samples of 161 slaughterhouse workers, 147 pig farmers, and 114 grain or berry farmers.
(17) The frequency of mites in dust from farmers' homes was three times higher and that of pyroglyphids ten times higher than in other dwellings.
(18) Children are stoned going to school and Palestinian shepherds and farmers are common targets for violence.
(19) And 96% of our grants go to African organisations, universities, scientists and small businesses to achieve a single goal: reduce hunger and poverty on our continent by unleashing the potential of the millions of small, family farmers who are the backbone of African agriculture and African economies.
(20) The warning of further food prices came as some British supermarkets said they were struggling to keep shelves stocked with fresh produce and the National Farmers Union (NFU) reported that UK wheat yields have been the lowest since the late 1980s as a result of abnormal rain fall.
Framer
Definition:
(n.) One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.
Example Sentences:
(1) America's same-sex couples, and the politicians who have barred gay marriage in 30 states, are looking to the supreme court to hand down a definitive judgment on where the constitution stands on an issue its framers are unlikely to have imagined would ever be considered.
(2) Today, my colleagues seem to have fallen prey to the misguided notion that the intent of the framers of the United States constitution can be effectuated only by cleaving to the legislative will and ignoring and demonizing an independent judiciary,” he wrote.
(3) There were efforts to integrate African Americans and to do so on the basis of equality, and the framers recognised you need to use race to help foster equality.
(4) The framers who drafted the Constitution could not have foreseen the challenges that have unfolded over the last two hundred and twenty-two years.
(5) We understand the words of Title VII differently not because we’re smarter than the statute’s framers and ratifiers, but because we live in a different era, a different culture.
(6) "The text permits the government to use race to help realise equal protection under the law, and at the very same time, the framers of the 14th amendment enacted numerous race-conscious measures to help ensure equality," said the centre's civil rights director, David Gans.
(7) It is argued that the framers of health care policies should recognize and support health psychologists in light of the fact that many of their techniques can reduce the cost and consumption of health care through programs that: reduce behavioral risk factors, increase compliance with medical regimens, and prepare patients psychologically for stressful medical procedures.
(8) "I don't believe this approach was the intention of the framers of the Bill of Rights in the 17th century, and even if it was, we should not rely on it today."
(9) Great writers have been modifying absolute adjectives for centuries, including the framers of the American Constitution, who sought "a more perfect union".
(10) Particular options for framing disease are not equally available to would-be framers.
(11) For the 62-year-old framer, working out of a two-room atelier in Athens’ upscale Kolonaki district, the downturn feels anything but over and he counts himself lucky: he still has a job and a few customers to boot.
(12) Where this will lead is anybody’s guess, but the consequences may be such that the framers of Turkish foreign policy will look back on the old days with nostalgia.
(13) Rumours that Bambi was once a successful recording artist who studied at Central St Martin's School of Art have been given substance by her few interviews and by the comments of her manager, an Islington picture framer named Leonard Villa.
(14) Data from diagnostic validators tend to support the second viewpoint, which is that taken by the framers of DSM-III and DSM-III-R.
(15) What was fascinating to find in the supreme court’s reasons is the extent to which the PNG constitution is bound with human rights protections and freedoms – completely missing from the Australian constitution, whose framers though the common law was protection enough for the unruly citizenry.
(16) The framers of our manifestos knew full well that the ordinary people of Britain, to whom we go for our votes, would not have stomached this proposal."
(17) These terms not only have legal meaning but they also can be part of overplaying a legal or rhetorical hand.” “Treason” is unusually narrowly defined in the constitution as aiding enemies in wartime, Shugerman said, with the framers, having just fought a revolution, working with acute awareness of the potential explosiveness of the charge.