Synonyms for agriculture
ˈæg rɪˌkʌl tʃəragri·cul·ture

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1. agriculture

   Agriculture is the generic term, including at once the science, the art, and the process of supplying human wants by raising the products of the soil, and by the associated industries; farming is the practise of agriculture as a business; there may be theoretical agriculture, but not theoretical farming; we speak of the science of agriculture, the business of farming; scientific agriculture may be wholly in books; scientific farming is practised upon the land; we say an agricultural college rather than a college of farming. Farming refers to the cultivation of considerable portions of land, and the raising of the coarser crops; gardening is the close cultivation of a small area for small fruits, flowers, vegetables, etc., and while it may be done upon a farm is yet a distinct industry. Gardening in general, kitchen-gardening, the cultivation of vegetables, etc., for the household, market-gardening, the raising of the same for sale, floriculture, the culture of flowers, and horticulture, the culture of fruits, flowers, or vegetables, are all departments of agriculture, but not strictly nor ordinarily of farming; farming is itself one department of agriculture. Husbandry is a general word for any form of practical agriculture, but is now chiefly poetical. Tillage refers directly to the work bestowed upon the land, as plowing, manuring, etc.; cultivation refers especially to the processes that bring forward the crop; we speak of the tillage of the soil, the cultivation of corn; we also speak of land as in a state of cultivation, under cultivation, etc. Culture is now applied to the careful development of any product to a state of perfection, especially by care through successive generations; the choice varieties of the strawberry have been produced by wise and patient culture; a good crop in any year is the result of good cultivation.

   Synonyms:
   cultivation, culture, farming, floriculture, gardening, horticulture, husbandry, kitchen-gardening, market-gardening, tillage

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1. agriculture

   Synonyms:
   cultivation, husbandry, farming, tillage

   Antonyms:
   sterility, unproductiveness, waste, fallowness, inculture

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1. agribusiness, agriculture, factory farmnoun

   a large-scale farming enterprise

   Synonyms:
   agribusiness, factory farm, husbandry, farming

2. farming, agriculture, husbandrynoun

   the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock

   Synonyms:
   agribusiness, husbandry, land, factory farm, farming

3. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Department, Agriculture, USDAnoun

   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

   Synonyms:
   agribusiness, factory farm, farming, husbandry

4. agriculturenoun

   the class of people engaged in growing food

   Synonyms:
   agribusiness, factory farm, farming, husbandry

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1. farming cooperatives

   it is the same as farming.

   working on a farm growing crops like corn, grains, etc.

   Submitted by JP03 on December 8, 2014  

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1. agriculturenoun

   Synonyms:
   tillage, husbandry, farming, culture, cultivation, geoponics

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1. agriculturenoun

   Synonyms:
   husbandry, farming, terra-culture, geoponics, agronomy

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1. List of paraphrases for "agriculture":

   agricultural, farming, 'agriculture, agricultura, farm, landwirtschaft, agricoltura, landbouw, 'agricoltura, cultivation, georgia, agrarian, agricole

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1. Krijn Poppe:

   In future we have to feed more people, and agriculture is becoming part of geopolitics, you see in a lot of countries there is interest in local production. In Russia it's influenced by a self-sufficiency policy.

2. Brad Morris:

   John Deere workers are determined to reach an agreement with the UAW that would put every employee in a better economic position and continue to make them the highest paid employees in the agriculture and construction industries, john Deere workers will keep working day and night to understand John Deere workers employees' priorities and resolve this strike.

3. Joaquin Phoenix:

   First, I'd like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press, um, for recognizing and acknowledging the link between animal agriculture and climate change, it's a very bold move making tonight plant-based, and it really sends a powerful message.

4. Steve Case:

   Take agriculture, the real expertise isn't in San Francisco. It's in places like St. Louis, with centuries of experience.

5. Shawn Walton:

   The partners are so instrumental because we not only want to show kids how to create access to bicycles and access to agriculture, but we also want to show them how to work together to solve a problem.