: the science, art, or practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock and in varying degrees the preparation and marketing of the resulting products
They cleared the land to use it for agriculture. the forest was cut down, and the land given over to agriculture
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin agricultura, from ager field + cultura cultivation — more at acre, culture