farm

IPA: fˈɑrm

A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
(often in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures.
(computing) A group of coordinated servers.
(obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal.
(obsolete) A banquet; feast.
(obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.
(historical) A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which he is empowered to collect; also, a fixed charge imposed on a town, county, etc., in respect of a tax or taxes to be collected within its limits.
(historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
The body of farmers of public revenues.
The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.
(historical) A baby farm.
(UK, slang) Broadwater Farm, an area of Tottenham, North London, England.

(intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
(transitive) To devote (land) to farming.
(transitive) To grow (a particular crop).
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; to farm out.
(obsolete, transitive) To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
(obsolete, transitive) To take at a certain rent or rate.
(video games, chiefly online gaming) To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.
(UK, dialectal) To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out

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