Agriculture - Definition
agriculture
n 1: a large-scale farming enterprise [syn: agribusiness,
agriculture, factory farm]
2: the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock [syn:
farming, agriculture, husbandry]
3: 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 [syn: Department of Agriculture, Agriculture
Department, Agriculture, USDA]
4: the class of people engaged in growing food