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agriculture

/ˈæɡ.ɹɪˌkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/

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What does agriculture mean?

noun

  1. The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the growing and harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock.

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/ˈæɡ.ɹɪˌkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/

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Richly endowed with water, mineral resources, forests, and a climate favorable to agriculture, Liberia is a producer and exporter of basic products.
United States. Central Intelligence AgencyThe 1990 CIA World FactbookProject Gutenberg ebook #14
He began, straight off, in the most innocently artful, and transparent, and lubberly way, to lead up to the subject of agriculture.
Mark TwainA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtProject Gutenberg ebook #86
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Let this market suddenly close, and manufactures will stop, commerce will go into bankruptcy, and agriculture will be smothered beneath its products.
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonSystem of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of MiseryProject Gutenberg ebook #444
When an attempt was made to enclose the lands for the purposes of agriculture, the fences were levelled by the dispossessed squatters.
Samuel SmilesThe Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great BritainProject Gutenberg ebook #939
But the freest importation of the rude produce of the soil could have no such effect upon the agriculture of the country.
Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3300