full-time farmer

collocation in English

meaningsoffull-timeandfarmer

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full-time
adjective
adverb
uk
/ˌfʊlˈtaɪm/us
/ˌfʊlˈtaɪm/
(of work or education) done for the whole of a ...
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farmer
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfɑː.mər/us
/ˈfɑːr.mɚ/
someone who owns or takes care of ...
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(Definition offull-timeandfarmerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffull-time farmer

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The idea was to transform the poor, ' backward ', ' inefficient ' farmer from the ' reserves ' to afull-timefarmerwho followed all the recommendations stipulated by the planners and extensionists.
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I am thinking not of the part-time farmer with three hectares, but of thefull-timefarmerwho has a heavy stock on his land.
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The averagefull-timefarmerin poor countries produces $650 worth of food a year.
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If he has not to be afull-timefarmerwhat is the purpose of saying he has to be afull-timefarmer?
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They need encouragement just as much as thefull-timefarmerdoes.
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Who is a farmer and who is afull-timefarmer, and how should we define this?
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These reports have stressed the unbalanced farm structure of the area where there are too few holdings which provide a satisfactory living for afull-timefarmerand his family.
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We have defined him as afull-timefarmerwho is farming between 15 and 100 acres, not engaged in horticulture and not employing any regular labour.
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Does he agree that we are now paying £25,000 direct agricultural support for everyfull-timefarmerand that we could get much better results on a national basis?
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I believe that the scheme is a good one, all the more so because its purpose is to make a permanent improvement in the position of the small,full-timefarmer.
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Mixson was afull-timefarmerduring his tenure as state legislator and developed a reputation as pro-agruculture business legislator.
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Such operations are often run by afull-timefarmeror farm family, and a few full-time employees.
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Today the community has but onefull-timefarmer.
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Now, there is still onefull-timefarmerand there are agricultural side-businesses.
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Part-time producers were distinct when compared to both groups of full-time farmers (statistically significant at the 0.01 level).
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The reasons cited by those full-time farmers with an average of 25 hectares were more diverse than those cited by farmers with less agricultural land.
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The retired vendors and part-time producers were not significantly different from each other; neither were the two groups of full-time farmers.
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Carroll started his career as a comedian in 1993 after working as afull-timefarmerfor several years.
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These people might be regarded as a peasantry, as distinct from large capitalist, full-time farmers on the one hand, and landless labourers on the other.
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Large farmers were not absent, since there were eighteen full-time farmers with holdings ranging from seventy-eight to 459 acres (median 152).
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