agriculture

Meanings

Noun

• a large-scale farming enterprise
• the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
• the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862
• the class of people engaged in growing food

Synonyms

agribusiness, Agriculture Department, Department of Agriculture, factory farm, farming, husbandry, USDA