efficient farmer

collocation in English

meaningsofefficientandfarmer

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efficient
adjective
uk
/ɪˈfɪʃ.ənt/us
/ɪˈfɪʃ.ənt/
working or operating quickly and effectively in an ...
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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 ofefficientandfarmerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofefficient farmer

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It is the progressive andefficientfarmer, who is spending money, who will bear the burden of the rates, and that is particularly unfair.
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It penalises theefficientfarmerand props up the inefficient one.
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I say that because it tends, so far as one can see, to help the inefficient farmer more than theefficientfarmer.
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By and large this is what theefficientfarmerhas done.
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We think it unreasonable that he should have to prove he is the mostefficientfarmerwho can be found for this particular farm.
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A good andefficientfarmer, like a good and efficient fishing vessel owner, can obviously cut back and economise.
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Theefficientfarmershould be glad no longer to be insulated against the fresh air of free competition.
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He is a one-time successful industrialist, and now a highlyefficientfarmerrespected throughout the area where he farms.
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I could not use a more general term than "a reasonablyefficientfarmer".
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I say that because anyone who despoils the countryside does not deliver environmental enhancement qualities to the countryside and will not be anefficientfarmer.
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There is a young andefficientfarmerthere.
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Anefficientfarmertold me over the weekend that he was discharging seven men, because of various difficulties.
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When we talk of productivity the difference between the most efficient and the leastefficientfarmeris much greater than perhaps it should be.
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We found great difficulty in giving any subsidy to agriculture in general which did not benefit theefficientfarmerfar more than the inefficient.
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Theefficientfarmergets security of tenure—some people think that in these days he gets too much security.
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Anefficientfarmeris promised security of tenure, boat there is no such promise for the efficient landowner, and there are many efficient landowners.
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All the other factors will then come into play and allow the good,efficientfarmerto compete successfully.
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Very broadly speaking, the price of agricultural intervention is related to the costs incurred by a reasonablyefficientfarmer.
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I can find nothing which does not prove that this man is an able andefficientfarmer.
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We should never object to avoiding excessive losses for theefficientfarmer.
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