Farm vs. Plantation

Farmnoun

A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.

Farmnoun

A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.

Farmnoun

A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures

Farmnoun

(computing) A group of coordinated servers.

Farmnoun

(obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal.

Farmnoun

(obsolete) A banquet; feast.

Farmnoun

(obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.

Farmnoun

(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.

Farmnoun

(historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.

Farmnoun

The body of farmers of public revenues.

Farmnoun

The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.

Farmverb

(intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.

Farmverb

(transitive) To devote (land) to farming.

Farmverb

(transitive) To grow (a particular crop).

Farmverb

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.

Farmverb

(obsolete) To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.

Farmverb

(obsolete) To take at a certain rent or rate.

Farmverb

To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.

Farmnoun

The rent of land, - originally paid by reservation of part of its products.

Farmnoun

The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.

Farmnoun

The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.

Farmnoun

Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.

Farmnoun

A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.

Farmnoun

A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.

Farmverb

To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.

Farmverb

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.

Farmverb

To take at a certain rent or rate.

Farmverb

To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.

Farmverb

To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.

Farmnoun

workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit;

Farmverb

be a farmer; work as a farmer;

Farmverb

collect fees or profits

Farmverb

cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques;

Farmnoun

an area of land and its buildings, used for growing crops and rearing animals

Farmnoun

a farmhouse

Farmnoun

a place for breeding a particular type of animal or producing a specified crop

Farmnoun

a place devoted to producing or promoting something

Farmverb

make one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock

Farmverb

use (land) for growing crops and rearing animals

Farmverb

breed or grow (a type of livestock or crop) commercially

Farmverb

send out or subcontract work to others

Farmverb

arrange for a child to be looked after by someone, usually for payment

Farmverb

send a sports player temporarily to another team in return for a fee

Farmverb

allow someone to collect and keep the revenues from (a tax) on payment of a fee

Farm

A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used for specialized units such as arable farms, vegetable farms, fruit farms, dairy, pig and poultry farms, and land used for the production of natural fiber, biofuel and other commodities.

Plantationnoun

A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.

Plantationnoun

An area where trees are planted for commercial purposes.

Plantationnoun

The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Caribbean.

Plantationnoun

The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.

Plantationnoun

The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.

Plantationnoun

An original settlement in a new country; a colony.

Plantationnoun

an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)

Plantationnoun

a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America);

Plantationnoun

garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

Plantationnoun

an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are grown.

Plantationnoun

an area in which trees have been planted, especially for commercial purposes

Plantationnoun

colonization or settlement of emigrants, especially of English and then Scottish families in Ireland in the 16th–17th centuries under government sponsorship

Plantationnoun

a colony.

Plantation

A plantation is a large-scale estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops. The crops that are grown include cotton, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar cane, opium, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, fruits, rubber trees and forest trees.