(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.
Yeoman
Definition:
(n.) A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.
(n.) A servant; a retainer.
(n.) A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry.
(n.) An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.
Example Sentences:
(1) 35:1249-1255) and in mitogen-stimulated normal human lymphocytes (Yeoman et al.
(2) Yeomans said there was not one simple solution, but the federal government needed to take a leadership role and involve all three levels of government.
(3) Justin Peters at Slate has done yeoman's work in addressing this issue.
(4) Photograph: Mark Yeoman Yet the orthodoxy prevails.
(5) Chicago’s Homan Square 'black site': surveillance, military-style vehicles and a metal cage Read more William Yeomans, who worked in the civil rights division from 1981 to 2005, and served as its acting attorney, said the allegations about off-the-books interrogations and barred access to legal counsel reported by the Guardian merited a preliminary investigation to confirm them, a first step toward a full civil rights investigation.
(6) Yeomans said it was not just the very poor who were adversely affected by high house prices.
(7) Yeomans said the North Carolina legislation represented "a sad day" for democracy in the US.
(8) A nuclear nonhistone protein which decreases in chromatin during growth (Yeoman, L. C., et al.
(9) Nonhistone protein BA has been shown to decrease in amount in the chromatin of growth- stimulated normal rat liver (Yeoman et al.
(10) How British hearts swelled with pride though, when Beckham was sent off during a Spanish league game in 2004 after calling a linesman a " hijo de puta " (son of a bitch) – even though we knew, really, that he remained a monoglot yeoman with a squeaky voice.
(11) We have previously shown that a 30 kDa DNA-binding protein isolated from rat cell nuclei exhibits the chemical and immunological properties of glutathione S-transferase Yb subunits [Bennett, Spector & Yeoman (1986) J.
(12) The name of Manchester City winger James Milner features prominently on his shopping list , although Liverpool, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur are also interested, but a bid of £10m might convince City suits to sell their Yorkshire yeoman.
(13) Two yeoman warders in medieval tunics, who had come from London with the constable of the Tower of London, Lord Dannatt, stood with their backs to the south door of the cathedral, as if the Tudors or Lancastrians might try to break in at any moment.
(14) I had long ago decided I was going to do everything I could with my yeoman-like work ethic to become as much of a maker as I am a taker.
(15) Ruth Yeoman is head of the academic research, leadership education and organisation development work at the centre for mutual and employee-owned business that is part of Oxford University.
(16) Protein C23 (Mr 110 000, pI = 5.5), a major phosphoprotein in the nucleolus of mammalian cells, has been shown to contain 1.3 mol% of NG,NG-dimethylarginine (DMA) [Lischwe, M.A., Roberts, K.D., Yeoman, L.C., & Busch, H. (1982) J. Biol.
(17) William Yeomans, a law professor in Washington and a former chief of staff in the Justice Department, said Texas and North Carolina may just be the start of a series of legal battles over voter rights in states across the country.
(18) Read more Mission Australia’s chief executive, Catherine Yeomans, said surging house prices were sending people into crisis accommodation for months instead of weeks and pushing them to the fringes of society.
(19) A DNA-binding nonhistone protein, protein BA, was previously demonstrated to co-localize with U-snRNPs within discrete nuclear domains (Bennett, F. C., and L. C. Yeoman, 1985, Exp.
(20) Donald Yeomans, of Nasa's near-Earth object programme, said in an interview posted on space agency's website : "There are three possibilities when this comet rounds the sun.