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. Representatives Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi:

   This delegation travels to Cuba in friendship and to build upon the announcement of U.S. normalization of relations and other initiatives announced by President Obama, this delegation will work to advance the U.S.-Cuba relationship and build on the work done by many in the Congress over the years, especially with respect to agriculture and trade.

2. Mark Marquis:

   The SREs (Small Refinery Exemptions) are a political football for the president, and he's going to have to take a look at how it's affecting agriculture and farmers, i can't say I'm happy with the way the administration has handled implementing the RFS.

3. Herry Purnomo:

   It is because people are opening new agriculture areas, like palm oil.

4. Tom Vilsack:

   I think you have to take you back 20, 30 years, when we know for a fact that socially disadvantaged producers were discriminated against by the United States Department of Agriculture. We know this. We have reimbursed people in the past for those acts of discrimination, but we've never absolutely dealt with the cumulative effect.

5. Larry Kudlow:

   I know that our side expects China very soon to start purchasing American agriculture, commodities, crops, goods and services.