farmed

Verb

farm (third-person singular simple present farms, present participle farming, simple past and past participle farmed)

1. (intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
2. (transitive) To devote (land) to farming.
3. (transitive) To grow (a particular crop).
4. 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.
   • to farm the taxes
5. (obsolete, transitive) To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
   • We are enforced to farm our royal realm.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to...
6. (obsolete, transitive) To take at a certain rent or rate.
   • In Paris it is stated that nearly half the birth-rate of the city finds its way to nurses who farm babies in the suburbs.1886, The Fortnightly, volume 46, page 530

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