| farm | |
| 1. n. A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock. | |
| 2. n. A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation. | |
| 3. n. (usually in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures | |
| fuel farm | |
| wind farm | |
| antenna farm | |
| 4. n. (computing) A group of coordinated servers. | |
| a render farm | |
| a server farm | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) A banquet; feast. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax. | |
| 8. n. (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 | |
| 9. n. (historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes. | |
| 10. n. The body of farmers of public revenues. | |
| 11. n. The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease. | |
| 12. v. (intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops. | |
| 13. v. To devote (land) to farming. | |
| 14. v. To grow (a particular crop). | |
| 15. v. 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 | |
| 16. v. (obsolete) To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds. | |
| 17. v. (obsolete) To take at a certain rent or rate. | |
| 18. v. (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. | |
| 19. v. (dialectal) To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out | |
| Farm out the stable and pigsty. | |
