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- Dictionaryfarm·er/ˈfärmər/
noun
- 1. a person who owns or manages a farm.
- 2. a person to whom the collection of taxes was contracted for a fee. historical
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1. : a person who pays a fixed sum for some privilege or source of income. 2. : a person who cultivates land or crops or raises animals (such as livestock or fish) 3. : yokel, bumpkin.
someone who owns or runs a farm, especially as a business: Local farmers say they are being forced off their land to make way for developers. a prosperous sheep farmer. Small Central American farmers find it difficult to compete with US rice growers. (Definition of farmer from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Farmer definition: a person who farms; person who operates a farm or cultivates land.. See examples of FARMER used in a sentence.
A farmer is a person who runs and works on a farm. Some farmers raise a variety of food crops, while others keep dairy cows and sell their milk. Farmers work in some aspect of agriculture, growing vegetables, grains, or fruit; or raising animals for milk, eggs, or meat.
In developed nations, a farmer (as a profession) is usually defined as someone with an ownership interest in crops or livestock, and who provides land or management in their production. Those who provide only labor are most often called farmhands .
someone who owns or runs a farm, especially as a business: Local farmers say they are being forced off their land to make way for developers. a prosperous sheep farmer. Small Central American farmers find it difficult to compete with US rice growers. (Definition of farmer from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Define farmer. farmer synonyms, farmer pronunciation, farmer translation, English dictionary definition of farmer. n. 1. One who works on or operates a farm. 2. One who has paid for the right to collect and retain certain revenues or profits. 3. A simple, unsophisticated...
