noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cotton field/farmer/plantation etc
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Texas produced half of the US cotton crop.
dirt farmer
farmers' market
gentleman farmer
organic farmers/farms
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Organic farmers build up soil fertility by crop rotation.
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Synthetic fertilisers are banned on organic farms.
tenant farmer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
local
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Despite all this, livestock deaths continued and alarm grew among the local farmers .
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Tipperary, owned by Merck, Sharp and Dohme is accused by a local farmer of causing his cattle to die.
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In Hatfield Chase today, you can see a sign put up by a local farmer with a sense of humour.
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Profits from it will go to local farmers who have been unable to make a living since the rains failed.
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Male speaker It's a Christmas perk for local farmers to sell holly and mistletoe.
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She is married to a local farmer and is the proprietor of Osiers Farm Golf Course.
old
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After a mile or two they passed an old farmer and asked him if he had seen Sir Hugo and the hounds.
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Niyonzima, a 40-year old peasant farmer , is about to become the first local tried for crimes against humanity.
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The old farmer did not pay him much money.
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And in an ironic twist, the Author is played by the same actor as the old farmer .
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But the old comfort farmer will hardly need the physical object any longer.
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Some one shot an old farmer and lifted him up and dumped him in a well and tossed in a grenade.
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But take a look at our old farmers .
organic
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And they also believe that would-be organic farmers should be encouraged with financial incentives.
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There are around 1,100 organic farmers .
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Harriet Ryley has been talking to an organic farmer who believes in putting the environment before profits.
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He's an organic farmer so he doesn't use any of the chemicals used on conventional farms.
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The chances of this working are close to zero, leaving organic farmers without their biological weapon of last resort.
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More than 30 organic farmers have offered to have their plots surveyed.
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There are over 1,000 organic farmers operating in Britain at the moment.
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I hadn't eaten beef for years, apart from the occasional prime organic steak from farmers I happen to know.
poor
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It is for all the poor farmers .
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They were part of the second wave of boat people, poor farmers and fishermen.
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These are lean times for the poor small farmers who work marginal lands in the coastal districts.
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The poor farmer spent a joyful year in her company, during which he learned many wonderful secrets.
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Hesiod was a poor farmer whose life was hard and bitter.
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The Characters Mr Kim-Soon: A poor farmer .
small
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Meanwhile state legislation protecting indebted small farmers has been abolished.
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The idea behind the Homestead Act was that a nation of small , independent farmers would make the best foundation for democracy.
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It has large and influential cereals and sugar barons in the north, but it has many small livestock farmers as well.
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For smaller farmers , too, the arguments in favour of slaughter are compelling.
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First, small farmers are many - while bigger farmers tend to be few.
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The seminar also called on governments to support small farmers , in order to help reduce the drift to the cities.
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I suspect it is the larger farmers signing up and throwing the smaller farmers to the vultures.
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The power that small hill farmers and poorer urban dwellers have in the state apparatus and in society at large is negligible.
white
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According to Whitehall officials, the local media suggested that the material was intended to help opposition parties or beleaguered white farmers .
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This has made Britain happy, since it has not had to pay out compensation to white farmers .
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Nine white farmers have been killed since April last year.
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The press seems intent on highlighting the deaths of two white farmers .
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The dead include white farmers , black farm labourers and city residents.
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The minister of agriculture and resettlement, Kumbirai Kangai, has been trying to reassure white farmers .
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If the white farmers are thrown off, they will default.
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The attempt to fan black hostility against white farmers during the election campaign was a failure.
■ NOUN
dairy
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Northern will be ready with a partnership arrangement in which it and the dairy farmer will work together.
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More like a dairy farmer , Wade thought, than an officer of the law.
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For dairy farmers shorter courses were run but travel could still be considerable and some found it very difficult to attend.
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All California dairy farmers must pay 15 cents to the federal fund for every hundred pounds of milk produced.
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Roberts was born in 1918, the son of a dairy farmer in Puente, California.
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As any dairy farmer can attest, this is a procedure that quickly becomes pointless.
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There were a number of dairy farmers whose uncertainty about milk quotas was reflected in their responses.
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Critics routinely dubbed him a dairy farmer from Kansas.
peasant
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Part is earmarked for transfer to the impoverished peasant farmers living in the areas concerned.
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Last June, a force of state police killed 17 unarmed peasant farmers on their way to a protest rally.
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Mrs Villemin is the wife of a peasant farmer .
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Niyonzima, a 40-year old peasant farmer , is about to become the first local tried for crimes against humanity.
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This depended on the creation of a large body of enterprising peasant farmers growing essentially cash crops.
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I also visited a cooperative of peasant farmers who grow sesame seed.
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Small peasant farmers , who own their own plots have often been compelled to sell land through poverty and debts.
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Red-tape, paperwork and bribe-hungry officials await peasant farmer Ramlal when he visits the city.
tenant
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Many farmers and tenant farmers live in big old rambling houses.
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Thousands of tenant farmers who have traditionally farmed the land, have already been displaced.
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The case of the large organisation versus the tenant farmer is summarised below from a file of 63 letters, plus documents.
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It was let to a series of tenant farmers for over two centuries, until the Tremaynes returned in 1914.
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Many councillors said they felt compelled to vote against the motion because they believed in the tenant farmers freedom of choice.
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Apparently in the old days it was the place where tenant farmers paid their rent to the estate.
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This was then worked by tenant farmers , who in turn employed many agricultural labourers.
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Born in 1589, he was the son of a small tenant farmer .
■ VERB
encourage
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The scheme merely encourages farmers to intensify production on their remaining land, it is argued.
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That will encourage existing farmers to increase their production per hectare from their smaller land allocation.
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The Government have encouraged farmers to diversify.
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It encourages the formation of farmer cooperatives and advances them loans for irrigation pumps.
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Agricultural advisors often inadvertently encourage pests by advising farmers to cultivate more intensively.
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The government has introduced several schemes to encourage farmers to plant up land.
help
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Does he think that he is helping our farmers in their genuine plight by highlighting such diseases in this debate?
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It was not enough, however, to help farmers .
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Already, independent specialist consultants are helping farmers by walking fields and assisting with advice for strategies of control.
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The new guarantee is designed to help farmers establish a base farming income, needed to secure agricultural loans.
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Above all, I want to help my farmer constituents towards a prosperous future.
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On the positive side, this approach has helped farmers in some developing countries to obtain better prices for their products.
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Other grants are offered to help farmers produce the most suitable products.
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None of these exemptions, however, will help the businessman or farmer of whose plight mention has already been made.
pay
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He has no intention of paying , arguing that farmers have traded seed for centuries.
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Southern Californian cities pay farmers to spread the material on land where non-edible crops are grown.
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We can not pay if farmers do not make the claims.
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For many the costs are so high that it does not even pay the farmer to send his crops to be sold.
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Rather than do anything about it, the Council pay the farmers a subsidy to filter the water.
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In 1994, for example, the U. S. Government paid farmers approximately $ 10 billion in grants.
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That is an odd prescription from an apostle of efficiency: you pay your most productive farmers not to produce.
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The government was paying farmers fifteen cents a cubic yard to move dirt.
sell
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Some land was raised, leveled and sold to farmers .
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The pulp is sold back to the farmers for feeding to their cattle.
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Many of the fodder crops are sold to the hill farmers and some are used to fatten the lambs.
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Springing sows reached £189 for a genuine sow sold by a Markethill farmer .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
small business/firm/farmer etc
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As a consequence, greater emphasis has been placed upon encouraging locally-based regeneration, and especially upon a revival of small firms.
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But it also is threatening the livelihoods of many small business operators in San Diego and elsewhere.
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Confiscatory taxes and overly complex tax regulations make it exceedingly difficult for small business to perform this basic function.
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On March 19 it passed a regulatory reform bill, which is intended to lighten the weight of government on small businesses.
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Paid holidays are 25 percent fewer in small firms and only half of this allowance is actually taken.
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The company also has expanded its offerings to help large and small businesses use the Internet and private computer networks.
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The Northern arm currently caters to the needs of more than 1,000 small businesses.
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The people believed, and many of them were putting money into improving their homes, modernizing their small businesses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Federal subsidies are still given to tobacco farmers.
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However, at times farmers have been their own worst enemies.
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Instead, farmers would get a guaranteed but dwindling federal payment over each of the next seven years.
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It was a system that worked and might be attractive to farmers in stock areas.
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Most of us were subsistence farmers.
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Mr MacSharry's plan, therefore, is to direct income support towards smaller farmers.
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U.S. farmers sold the world about $ 50 billion in farm goods last year, much of it genetically engineered.