Used Definition–adjective | 1. | previously used or owned; secondhand: a used car. | | 2. | showing wear or being worn out. | | 3. | employed for a purpose; utilized. | —Idiom | 4. | used to, accustomed or habituated to: I'm not used to cold weather. They weren't used to getting up so early. | |
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Farm Definition–noun | 1. | a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood. | | 2. | land or water devoted to the raising of animals, fish, plants, etc.: a pig farm; an oyster farm; a tree farm. | | 3. | a similar, usually commercial, site where a product is manufactured or cultivated: a cheese farm; a honey farm. | | 4. | the system, method, or act of collecting revenue by leasing a territory in districts. | | 5. | a country or district leased for the collection of revenue. | | 6. | a fixed yearly amount accepted from a person in view of local or district taxes that he or she is authorized to collect. | | 7. | a tract of land on which an industrial function is carried out, as the drilling or storage of oil or the generation of electricity by solar power. | | 8. | English History. | a. | the rent or income from leased property. | | b. | the condition of being leased at a fixed rent; possession under lease; a lease. | | | 9. | Also called farm team, farm club. Chiefly Baseball. a team in a minor league that is owned by or affiliated with a major-league team, for training or keeping players until ready or needed. | | 10. | Obsolete. a fixed yearly amount payable in the f
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orm of rent, taxes, or the like. | –verb (used with object) | 12. | to take the proceeds or profits of (a tax, undertaking, etc.) on paying a fixed sum. | | 13. | to let or lease (taxes, revenues, an enterprise, etc.) to another for a fixed sum or a percentage (often fol. by out). | | 14. | to let or lease the labor or services of (a person) for hire. | | 15. | to contract for the maintenance of (a person, institution, etc.): a county that farms its poor. | –verb (used
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without object) | 16. | to cultivate the soil; operate a farm. | —Verb phrase | 17. | farm out, | a. | to assign (work, privileges, or the like) to another by financial agreement; subcontract; lease: The busy shipyard farmed out two construction jobs to a smaller yard. | | b. | to assign the care of (a child or dependent person) to another: She farms her elderly aunt out to a retired nurse during the workweek. | | c. | Chiefly Baseball. to assign (a player) to a farm. | | d. | to exhaust (farmland) by overcropping. | | e. | to drill (oil or gas wells), esp. by subcontract on land owned or leased by another. | | —Idiom | 18. | buy the farm, Slang. to die or be killed. | |
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Equipment Definition–noun | 1. | anything kept, furnished, or provided for a specific purpose. | | 2. | the act of equipping a person or thing. | | 3. | the state of being equipped. | | 4. | the personal knowledge and skill required for a task, occupation, etc.: He has the necessary equipment for law. | | 5. | the rolling stock of a railroad. | |
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Titan Machinery Acquires Wolf's Farm Equipment, Inc.
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