mink farm
collocation in Englishmeaningsofminkandfarm
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mink
noun[C or U]
uk/mɪŋk/us/mɪŋk/
a small animal with valuable fur that is used to make expensive coats, or the fur from ...
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farm
noun[C]
uk/fɑːm/us/fɑːrm/
an area of land, together with a house and buildings, used for growing crops and/or keeping animals as ...
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(Definition ofminkandfarmfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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My house is about 400 yards from aminkfarmand there are several other properties in this residential area which are very much nearer.
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The benefit for the community of saying that there would never be anotherminkfarmthere would be undoubted.
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The one otherminkfarmuses the injection method, but was not observed in operation.
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It can go in at any time and inspect thatminkfarm.
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Since then, no applications for licences to keep mink in aminkfarmhave been refused.
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Theminkfarmceased to operate at about the same time as the licence application was withdrawn.
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Theminkfarmwas allowed to operate pending a decision on the licence application.
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Nowhere in aminkfarmdo we see such facilities.
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If a mink that is believed to have come from aminkfarmis captured, inquiries are made to establish its origin.
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It is the semi-aquatic environment needed by mink that is so difficult to provide on aminkfarm.
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Theminkfarmowner was therefore acting within the terms of the licence issued to him, to keep mink in any building on the farm.
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About a year ago the owners of aminkfarmgot £24,000 damages because the contractors supplied food which included offal from caponised chickens.
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If someone runs aminkfarm, he can afford to buy butchers' meat for his dog.
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There have been court cases and arrests, and armed guards at one stage had to be stand guard over hisminkfarm.
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He gave planning permission for this particular planning case where theminkfarmwas to be set up.
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Article 17 deals with the removal of unfit meat to a zoological garden, menagerie,minkfarmor maggot farm—that is interesting.
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They have been established as a breeding species in the wild since 1957, and escaped mink are found around everyminkfarm, or the site of every formerminkfarm.
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This farm also experienced rapid growth and became the biggestminkfarmin the world by 1962.
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There are a large number of well-run mink farms, and no doubt a few less well-run.
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It reflects on the excellent governance of this country in the past 18 years that her priority is to close down 11 mink farms.
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