Definitions

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  • noun The agricultural work done on a farm.

Etymologies

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farm +‎ work

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Examples

  • The farmwork was rarely done by family members because the farm was a big corporation now.

    So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011

  • When farmwork was slack we were sent on the road that was being built by

    Stan Prout 2010

  • The farmwork was rarely done by family members because the farm was a big corporation now.

    So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011

  • I have a sneaking suspicion that a nasty wound like this—especially one associated with farmwork—will not go over all that well.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • I have a sneaking suspicion that a nasty wound like this—especially one associated with farmwork—will not go over all that well.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • They were calloused, these hands, rough and dry with the scars of farmwork.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • They were calloused, these hands, rough and dry with the scars of farmwork.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • The pre-1914 Jewish immigrants received some of their agricultural training from their Arab neighbors, with whom they also traded produce and whom they sometimes hired to assist in farmwork.

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • The pre-1914 Jewish immigrants received some of their agricultural training from their Arab neighbors, with whom they also traded produce and whom they sometimes hired to assist in farmwork.

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • Not only were they losing ownership of the land, but the “conquest of labor” policy also excluded them from paid farmwork, the next best thing.

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

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