agriculture

(noun)

noun

1. a large-scale farming enterprise

Similar word(s): agribusiness

Definition categories: act, business

2. the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock

Similar word(s): farming, husbandry

Definition categories: act, cultivation

3. the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862

Definition categories: group

4. the class of people engaged in growing food

Definition categories: group, class, stratum