farmer

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Thier managed to procure a 122-pound sow from a local pig farmer for last year's roast, a daunting affair, as the farmer was all but unreachable.

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  1. noun One who works on or operates a farm.
  2. noun One who has paid for the right to collect and retain certain revenues or profits.
  3. noun A simple, unsophisticated person; a bumpkin.

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  • The "free market" ideologues on Fox TV call this "Porculus", proving only their own ignorance as to how a productive capitalist economy actually works, with the interdependence of many disparate elements nationwide, and the fundamental truth that when it comes to providing for our general welfare, at the most basic level, "the farmer is the man." —  CapeCodToday Blog Chowder
  • Warren, Minnesota farmer was the first Minnesota wheat leader to be elected as an officer of NAWG in 1981.
  • The colourful show was spotted by a photographer who said: "It looks like the farmer was a bit heavy-handed with his spray can." —  icScotland
  • His decision to be a farmer is a decision to stop exploiting others and to return to the skills he acquired selflessly, as a child. —  Popular Posts Across MetaFilter
  • His decision to be a farmer is a decision to stop exploiting others —  Popular Posts Across MetaFilter
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  1. from Middle English *fermer, fermour, a steward, bailiff, collector of taxes, partly from Old French fermier, French fermier, a farmer, a lessee, also a chief husbandman, a bailiff or overseer of a farm (from Middle Latin firmarius, one to whom land is rented for a term of years, a collector of taxes, a deputy; from firma, farm, in its various senses: see farm), partly from Anglo-Saxon feormere, a purveyor (of a guild), from feormian, purvey, supply, etc.: see farm, n. and v.
 

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