Definition of agriculture

noun (n)

• a large-scale farming enterprise (noun.act)

  Synonym: agribusiness, factory farm
  

  source: wordnet30
• the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock (noun.act)

  Synonym: farming, husbandry
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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 (noun.group)

  Synonym: agriculture department, department of agriculture, usda
  

  source: wordnet30
• the class of people engaged in growing food (noun.group)

  source: wordnet30
• The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming. (noun)

  source: webster1913

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