Meaning & use
truck farmer
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Meaning
nouncountableAmerican
A person who grows vegetables or similar crops on a farm, mainly to sell in nearby markets.
Grammar: Refers to a person, with the plural truck farmers.
Patterns
- a truck farmer in somewhere
The truck farmer arrived at dawn with crates of sweet corn for the city market.
Her great-uncle was a truck farmer who sold greens from a cart.
Truck farmers near the coast take advantage of the mild climate.
Word forms
| plural | truck farmers |
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Common combinations
- a local truck farmer
- A local truck farmer supplies the grocery store with tomatoes.
- become a truck farmer
- He gave up office work to become a truck farmer.
- a family of truck farmers
- She comes from a family of truck farmers who sold at the roadside.
- an independent truck farmer
- As an independent truck farmer, he chose his own crops.
Synonyms and how they differ
- market gardener
- Market gardener is the usual British word and often suggests a smaller scale.
- vegetable grower
- It is a plain modern phrase that describes the crop and not the old market tradition.
- farmer
- It is the general word and does not say what the farmer grows or where it is sold.
Word family
- truck farm noun
- the farm run by the grower
- truck farming noun
- growing vegetables for sale at market
- farmer noun
- a person who works on a farm
- farm verb
- to work land to grow crops
Commonly confused: truck farmer or truck driver?
truck farmer vs truck driver
A truck driver drives trucks. A truck farmer grows vegetables, and truck in this phrase is an old word for market goods.
Practice
The ____ drove into town each Saturday with beans, squash and cucumbers to sell at the market.
Choose one answer.
A truck farmer grows vegetables to sell at market. A truck driver only drives and a cattle rancher raises animals.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “truck farmer”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.