[fɑːm], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an area of land and its buildings, used for growing crops and rearing animals
(e.g: a farm of 100 acres)


Phrases:
- bet the farm
- buy back the farm
- buy the farm
- from farm to fork
- sell off the farm

Origin:
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 farm, which later gave rise to meaning ‘to subcontract’. The noun came to denote a lease, and, in the early 16th century, land leased for farming. The verb sense ‘grow crops or keep livestock’ dates from the early 19th century

[fɑːm], (Verb)

Definitions:
- make one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock
(e.g: he has farmed organically for years)

- allow someone to collect and keep the revenues from (a tax) on payment of a fee
(e.g: the customs had been farmed to the collector for a fixed sum)


Phrases:
- bet the farm
- buy back the farm
- buy the farm
- from farm to fork
- sell off the farm

Origin:
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 farm, which later gave rise to meaning ‘to subcontract’. The noun came to denote a lease, and, in the early 16th century, land leased for farming. The verb sense ‘grow crops or keep livestock’ dates from the early 19th century