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Noun agriculture has 4 senses
- agribusiness, agriculture, factory farm - a large-scale farming enterprise
--1 is a kind of commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business
- farming, agriculture, husbandry - the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
--2 is a kind of cultivation
--2 has parts: tilling; harvest, harvest time
--2 has particulars:
- Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Department, Agriculture, USDA - 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
--3 is a kind of executive department
- agriculture - the class of people engaged in growing food
--4 is a kind of class, social class, socio-economic class
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