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ranch

[ ranch ]

noun

  1. an establishment maintained for raising livestock under range conditions.
  2. Chiefly Western U.S. and Canada. a large farm used primarily to raise one kind of crop or animal:

    a mink ranch.

  3. the persons employed or living on a ranch.
  4. I’ll have the small salad, with ranch on the side.



verb (used without object)

  1. to manage or work on a ranch.

ranch

/ ɑːԳʃ /

noun

  1. a large tract of land, esp one in North America, together with the necessary personnel, buildings, and equipment, for rearing livestock, esp cattle
    1. any large farm for the rearing of a particular kind of livestock or crop

      a mink ranch

    2. the buildings, land, etc, connected with it
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. intr to manage or run a ranch
  2. tr to raise (animals) on or as if on a ranch
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • Գl adjective
  • Գl adjective
  • ܲ·Գ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ranch1

An Americanism dating from 1800–10; from Spanish rancho “farm, cattle farm, ranch”; rancho
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ranch1

C19: from Mexican Spanish rancho small farm; see rancho
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A ranch used as a training camp by a Mexican drug cartel was littered with burned bodies and discarded possessions.

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After his triumphant portrayal of Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone’s 1991 biopic “The Doors,” he moved to a vast New Mexico ranch where he rode horses, raised buffalo and wrote poetry.

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The fire burned down the ranch house and other historic buildings.

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On weekends, they’d head to their ranch in nearby Marshall and go horseback riding and tend to the black Angus cattle they raised for their mail-order meat company, his latest enterprise.

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Some former ranch occupants were tricked via promises of security guard jobs and other legitimate work, according to human rights activists and relatives of the missing.

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