agriculture

  • 31agriculture — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Science of cultivating Nouns 1. (art ofgrowing) agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming, tillage, culture; aeroculture, aeroponics, agrobiology, agrology, agronomy, agrostology; gardening,… …

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  • 32Agriculture —    Perhaps no area was affected by the changing trends of the decades of the 1930s and 1940s as much as agriculture. Although for much of its history the United States was a predominantly agrarian economy, by the end of the 19th century, farmers… …

    Historical Dictionary of the Roosevelt–Truman Era

  • 33AGRICULTURE —    Great advances have been made in the systematic study of Etruscan agriculture now that direct methods of analysis have substantially augmented the indirect interpretation of texts and art historical records. Mediterranean polyculture (wheat,… …

    Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans

  • 34Agriculture —    Due to its geography and climate, agriculture in Russia is limited to approximately 7 percent of the country’s territory or 1.2 million square kilometers. Despite this limitation, Russia is one of the world’s largest producers of foodstuffs.… …

    Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation

  • 35agriculture — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ modern ▪ intensive ▪ organic ▪ sustainable ▪ conventional, traditional …

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  • 36Agriculture —          MÉLINE (Jules)     Bio express : Homme politique français (1838 1925)     «La prospérité publique est semblable à un arbre : l agriculture en est la racine, l industrie et le commerce en sont les branches et les feuilles ; si la racine… …

    Dictionnaire des citations politiques

  • 37agriculture — From Genesis (2:15) to Revelation (14:14–20) the Bible is dominated by farmers and their endless labour as they struggled to feed the Palestinian population despite droughts (Jer. 14:1–6), their main enemy, and pests and armed intruders.… …

    Dictionary of the Bible

  • 38agriculture — ag|ri|cul|ture [ ægrı,kʌltʃər ] noun uncount ** the work, business, or study of farming: Most of the population is employed in agriculture and fishing. the UN Food and Agriculture Organization …

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  • 39agriculture — [[t]æ̱grɪkʌltʃə(r)[/t]] ♦♦♦ N UNCOUNT Agriculture is farming and the methods that are used to raise and look after crops and animals. Strong both in industry and agriculture, the Ukraine produces much of the grain for the nation. Derived words:… …

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  • 40Agriculture —    Blessed with a warm climate and an abundance of land, Burma traditionally has been a country where no one starved. Before World War II, it was the world s leading exporter of rice. Agriculture remains the most important sector in the Burmese… …

    Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)