Synonyms for farm out

Grammar : Verb

Spell : fahrm

Phonetic Transcription : fɑrm

Définition of farm out

Origin : c.1300, "fixed payment (usually in exchange for taxes collected, etc.), fixed rent," from Old French ferme "rent, lease," from Medieval Latin firma "fixed payment," from Latin firmare "to fix, settle, confirm, strengthen," from firmus "firm" (see firm (adj.)).
Sense of "tract of leased land" is first recorded early 14c.; that of "cultivated land" (leased or not) is 1520s. Phrase buy the farm "die in battle," is at least from World War II, perhaps a cynical reference to the draftee's dream of getting out of the war and going home, in many cases to a peaceful farmstead. But fetch the farm is prisoner slang from at least 1879 for "get sent to the infirmary," with reference to the better diet and lighter duties there.

verb contract out work

Example sentences :

He wanted his grandfather to buy him a farm out there where he could breed horses.
Extract from : « The Forsyte Saga, Complete » by John Galsworthy

As time goes on there should be opportunities to farm out projects to individual growers.
Extract from : « Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 » by Various

Sense that, the other boys have married, and Submit has lived alone in the old farm-house, lettin' the farm out on shares.
Extract from : « Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 3. » by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)

E got some work at a farm out at Pendragon and 'e was just goin' there when I came along and made 'im come to Spain. '
Extract from : « Fortitude » by Hugh Walpole

I only wish his volk were on my farm—out they should go, or I would know the reason why.
Extract from : « A Changed Man and Other Tales » by Thomas Hardy

Grandfather and his boys, four in all, fairly carved a farm out of the big forest that covered the cold rocky hills.
Extract from : « Death Valley in '49 » by William Lewis Manly

And they had squeezed farm after farm out of the settlers hands for rum, and thus had bountifully enriched themselves.
Extract from : « Following the Equator, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

When I first saw you on your father's farm out in Kansas, you was as wild a little gypsy as I ever set eyes on.
Extract from : « The Faith Healer » by William Vaughn Moody

For it is a hard thing to make a farm out of nothing, even in fifteen years.
Extract from : « The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue » by Various

He had stopped this time in Iowa and had begun once again the tremendous task of making a farm out of the virgin prairie.
Extract from : « A History of American Literature Since 1870 » by Fred Lewis Pattee

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