FARMER-GENERAL


Meaning of FARMER-GENERAL in English

— farmer-generalship , n.

/fahr"meuhr jen"euhr euhl/ , n. , pl. farmers-general .

(in France, under the old monarchy) a member of a company of capitalists that farmed certain taxes.

[ 1705-15; trans. of F fermier-général ]

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