Meaning & use
commercial farm
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Meaning
nouncountable
A farm that grows crops or raises animals mainly to sell for profit rather than to feed one family.
Grammar: Countable: say a commercial farm, commercial farms, or the commercial farm.
Patterns
- run a commercial farm
- work on a commercial farm
- a large commercial farm
Her parents run a commercial farm that ships vegetables to supermarkets across the state.
After college he returned home to manage the family's commercial farm.
Unlike a small vegetable plot, a commercial farm needs machinery and hired workers.
Word forms
| plural | commercial farms |
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Common combinations
- a large commercial farm
- The valley is dominated by large commercial farms growing wheat.
- run a commercial farm
- They run a commercial farm and sell most of the milk to a cooperative.
- commercial farm equipment
- Commercial farm equipment is expensive to buy and repair.
- commercial farm land
- Much of the commercial farm land has been sold for housing.
Synonyms and how they differ
- factory farm
- A factory farm is a large industrial operation, often with a critical tone, while a commercial farm simply means one that sells its produce.
- agribusiness
- Agribusiness refers to the whole farming industry and its companies, not to a single farm.
Opposites
Word family
- commercial farming noun
- the business of farming to sell products for profit
- farmer noun
- a person who owns or works on a farm
- farm verb
- to grow crops or keep animals as a business
Commonly confused: commercial farm or farmhouse?
commercial farm vs farmhouse
A farmhouse is the house where farming people live, not the business itself.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'commercial farm' correctly?
Choose one answer.
A commercial farm is a business that grows or raises things to sell, so growing tomatoes to sell fits. Option An and C confuse it with a farmhouse, the building people live in.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “commercial farm”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.