farm

farm
noun

verb

[no obj.]make one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock
从事种植（或养殖），务农
he has farmed organically for five years.
他采用有机种植已有五年。
■[with obj.]use (land) for growing crops and rearing animals, especially commercially
将（土地）用作商业种植（或养殖）
■[with obj.]breed or grow commercially (a type of livestock or crop, especially one not normally domesticated or cultivated)
商业化养殖（牲畜，尤指通常非驯养的牲畜野生动物）；商业化种植（作物，尤指通常非培育的作物）
[with obj.](farm someone/thing out)send out or subcontract work to others
将…外包（或分包）
it saves time and money to farm out some writing work to specialized companies.
有些书写工作外包给专门公司做，既省时，又省钱。
■arrange for a child to be looked after by someone, usually for payment
（有偿）为孩子找照看人
■(dated)send a sports player temporarily to another team in return for a fee
(旧)（暂时）转让；外借（队员）
[with obj.](historical)allow someone to collect and keep the revenues from (a tax) on payment of a fee
(史)（收取一定费用）将（税收）包出
the customs had been farmed to the collector for a fixed sum.
在收取一笔固定款项后，关税已包给收税员征收。

派生
farmable
adjective
语源

Middle English: from Old French ferme, from medieval Latin firma 'fixed payment', from Latin firmare 'fix, settle' (in medieval Latin 'contract for'), from firmus 'constant, firm'; compare with firm. The noun originally denoted a fixed annual amount payable as rent or tax; this is reflected in sense 3 of the verb, which later gave rise to 'to subcontract' (sense 2). The noun came to denote a lease, and, in the early 16th cent., land leased specifically for farming. The verb sense 'grow crops or keep livestock' dates from the early 19th cent

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