'Truck farming' definitions:
Definition of 'truck farming'
(from WordNet)
noun
Growing vegetables for the market
Definition of 'Truck farming'
From: GCIDE
- Truck \Truck\, n. [Cf. F. troc.]
- 1. Exchange of commodities; barter. --Hakluyt. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- 3. The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system. [1913 Webster]
- Garden truck, vegetables raised for market. [Colloq.] [U. S.]
- Truck farming, raising vegetables for market: market gardening. [Colloq. U. S.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'truck farming'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agrarianism,
- agricultural geology,
- agriculture,
- agrology,
- agronomics,
- agronomy,
- contour farming,
- cultivation,
- culture,
- dirt farming,
- dry farming,
- dryland farming,
- farm economy,
- farming,
- fruit farming,
- geoponics,
- grain farming,
- husbandry,
- hydroponics,
- intensive farming,
- mixed farming,
- rural economy,
- sharecropping,
- strip farming,
- subsistence farming,
- tank farming,
- thremmatology,
- tillage,
- tilth