"agribusiness" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈæɡɹɪˌbɪznəs/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation], /-nɪs/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-uk-agribusiness.oga [UK] Forms: agribusinesses [plural]
Etymology: From agri- + business, or a blend of agriculture + business, coined by American academic and diplomat John Herbert Davis (1904–1988). Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|agri|business}} agri- + business, {{blend|en|agriculture|business|nocap=1}} blend of agriculture + business Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} agribusiness (countable and uncountable, plural agribusinesses)
  1. (uncountable) Business (especially big business) connected to agriculture, either owning or operating large-scale farms, or catering to those who do. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Agriculture, Business Synonyms: agrobusiness, agribiz Translations (big business connected to agriculture): 農企業 (Chinese Mandarin), 农企业 (nóngqǐyè) (Chinese Mandarin), 農業綜合企業 (Chinese Mandarin), 农业综合企业 (nóngyè zōnghé qǐyè) (Chinese Mandarin), maatalousbisnes (Finnish), maatalousliiketoiminta (Finnish), agro-industrie [masculine] (French), Agribusiness [neuter] (German), Agrobusiness [neuter] (German), agribisnis (Indonesian), agribusiness [masculine] (Italian), アグリビジネス (aguribijinesu) (Japanese), agroverslas (Lithuanian), agribisnis (Malay), agrobiznes [masculine] (Polish), agronegócio [masculine] (Portuguese), агроби́знес (agrobíznes) [masculine] (Russian), agrobiznis [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), agronegocio [masculine] (Spanish), agribisnis (Sundanese), jordbruksnäring (Swedish), lantbruksnäring (Swedish), агробизнес (agrobiznes) (Tajik), agrobiznes (Uzbek)
    Sense id: en-agribusiness-en-noun-NM74GM3S Disambiguation of Agriculture: 54 46 Disambiguation of Business: 68 32 Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms prefixed with agri- Disambiguation of English blends: 59 41 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 59 41 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with agri-: 57 43 Disambiguation of 'big business connected to agriculture': 76 24
  2. (countable) A business or group of businesses engaged in agriculture, particularly if using modern farming techniques in the process. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Agriculture Synonyms: agrobusiness Translations (business or group of businesses engaged in agriculture): agrobiznes [masculine] (Polish), agrobiznis [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), agronegocio [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-agribusiness-en-noun-iuTXY8j4 Disambiguation of Agriculture: 54 46 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of 'business or group of businesses engaged in agriculture': 29 71
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: agri-business Derived forms: agribusinessman, agribusinessperson, agribusinesswoman Related terms: agridollars, agroeconomy, agri-politics, agripower, Big Ag

Noun [Italian]

Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from English agribusiness. Etymology templates: {{ubor|it|en|agribusiness}} Unadapted borrowing from English agribusiness Head templates: {{it-noun|m|#}} agribusiness m (invariable)
  1. agribusiness Tags: invariable, masculine
    Sense id: en-agribusiness-it-noun-HfDNKQ8s Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "\"Agribusiness,\" he [John H. Davis] says, \"can be used as a starting point in the attack on the problem of farm surpluses and dipping farm incomes.\" [...] Davis arrives at his estimate that the agribusiness component of the total U.S. economy now accounts for no less than 40 per cent of the total work force and about 40 per cent of the gross national product.",
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          "ref": "1969 June, Ed Wimmer, “Agri-business centers—big new threat”, in Independent Banker, Sauk Centre, Minn.: Independent Bankers Association of America, →ISSN, →OCLC; quoted in Role of Giant Corporations: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Monopoly of the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Ninety-first Congress, First Session on the Role of Giant Corporations in the American and World Economies: Part 1A—Appendixes: Automobile Industry—1969: […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969, →OCLC, page 1012",
          "text": "Plans are underway to open a chain of huge, agri-business farm centers that could be a far greater threat to rural America than anything the big chains or the federal government have caused in the last 50 years. [...] Financial backing for the building of these 40-acre, agri-business, all-engulfing raids on rural America was announced by Litton Industries, now involved in an antitrust suit.",
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          "ref": "1970 April, “Agricultural Economics”, in Discovery and Growth: Survey of Agricultural Research in Maryland: Eightieth Annual Report: 1966–1967 (Bulletin A; 159), College Park, Md.: University of Maryland Agricultural Research Station, →OCLC, page 9, column 2",
          "text": "These county reports were distributed to farmers, assessors, credit agencies, county planning groups, agri-business personnel, Extension agents, vocational agriculture teachers, administrators and individuals with an interest in the land market.",
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          "ref": "1988, Mahar Mangahas, “Distributive Justice in the Philippines: Ideology, Policy and Surveillance”, in Lim Teck Ghee, editor, Reflections on Development in Southeast Asia, Singapore: ASEAN Economic Research Unit, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, page 95",
          "text": "As in the Spanish and American periods, public lands were made available for favoured private interests in agri-business, including foreign interests (using leasing arrangements to avoid the constitutional prohibition on foreign acquisition of land).",
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          "text": "Primary agribusiness includes three categories (agriculture; livestock; forestry), whereas manufacturing agribusiness includes ten categories to reflect the variety of traded products (canned; cereals; drinks; leather; meat; oils; paper; tobacco; wood; other). In addition, there are service agribusinesses, notably supermarkets. [...] Agribusiness now includes all businesses whose raw materials are primarily products of the land and the sea.",
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          "ref": "1983 September 21, Steven R. Tabor, Larry C. Morgan, “Agricultural Production Contracting in Pakistan: A Case Study in Agribusiness Innovation”, in Pakistan’s Edible Oilseeds Industry: […], Washington, D.C.: United States Agency for International Development, published March 1984, →OCLC, part VII (Marketing and Pricing Policies), section VI (Conclusion), paragraph 6.2, page 605",
          "text": "The notable difference between the performance of the government's agricultural firms and private agribusinesses is that the private firms use formal production contracts. These contracts add a measure of market security to both the processing factory and the grower which is the cornerstone of an economic atmosphere conducive to rapid agricultural development.",
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          "ref": "1990, “Introduction and Background”, in Agricultural Engineering in Development: Guidelines for Mechanization Systems and Machinery Rehabilitation Programmes (FAO Agricultural Services Bulletin; 85), Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, page 1",
          "text": "The following broad categories of machinery users can be identified: / ― Estates, plantations, and large agri-businesses that purchase their machinery outright or with credit from commercial banks, and have their own maintenance and repair facilities; [...]",
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          "ref": "1998, Peter Webber, “Economic Activity”, in The UK (Places and Cases), Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Stanley Thornes (Publishers), page 50",
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          "ref": "2006, Sunil Bharti Mittal, “The Corporate Sector Must Turn Around Agriculture”, in India Empowered: Change Agents Speak on an Idea whose Time has Come, New Delhi: Viking, page 273",
          "text": "Empowerment is not a moment of epiphany. It sometimes involves a simple direction of helping people help themselves. In Punjab, for example, when we started contract farming for our agri-business, we deliberately involved the women folk in the villages to work in the fields.",
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          "ref": "2007, J. Dennis Lord, “Poultry”, in John T. Edge, editor, Foodways (The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture; 7), Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, page 93",
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          "ref": "1955 October 23, “Agribusiness: A new term from Boston: Reprinted from Business Week”, in Des Moines Sunday Register (Sports), volume 107, number 125, Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Register & Tribune Co., →OCLC, page 12-S, column 6",
          "text": "\"Agribusiness,\" he [John H. Davis] says, \"can be used as a starting point in the attack on the problem of farm surpluses and dipping farm incomes.\" [...] Davis arrives at his estimate that the agribusiness component of the total U.S. economy now accounts for no less than 40 per cent of the total work force and about 40 per cent of the gross national product.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1969 June, Ed Wimmer, “Agri-business centers—big new threat”, in Independent Banker, Sauk Centre, Minn.: Independent Bankers Association of America, →ISSN, →OCLC; quoted in Role of Giant Corporations: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Monopoly of the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Ninety-first Congress, First Session on the Role of Giant Corporations in the American and World Economies: Part 1A—Appendixes: Automobile Industry—1969: […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969, →OCLC, page 1012",
          "text": "Plans are underway to open a chain of huge, agri-business farm centers that could be a far greater threat to rural America than anything the big chains or the federal government have caused in the last 50 years. [...] Financial backing for the building of these 40-acre, agri-business, all-engulfing raids on rural America was announced by Litton Industries, now involved in an antitrust suit.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1970 April, “Agricultural Economics”, in Discovery and Growth: Survey of Agricultural Research in Maryland: Eightieth Annual Report: 1966–1967 (Bulletin A; 159), College Park, Md.: University of Maryland Agricultural Research Station, →OCLC, page 9, column 2",
          "text": "These county reports were distributed to farmers, assessors, credit agencies, county planning groups, agri-business personnel, Extension agents, vocational agriculture teachers, administrators and individuals with an interest in the land market.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Mahar Mangahas, “Distributive Justice in the Philippines: Ideology, Policy and Surveillance”, in Lim Teck Ghee, editor, Reflections on Development in Southeast Asia, Singapore: ASEAN Economic Research Unit, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, page 95",
          "text": "As in the Spanish and American periods, public lands were made available for favoured private interests in agri-business, including foreign interests (using leasing arrangements to avoid the constitutional prohibition on foreign acquisition of land).",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2019, Julian Roche, “The Need for Agribusiness”, in Agribusiness: An International Perspective, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 2",
          "text": "Primary agribusiness includes three categories (agriculture; livestock; forestry), whereas manufacturing agribusiness includes ten categories to reflect the variety of traded products (canned; cereals; drinks; leather; meat; oils; paper; tobacco; wood; other). In addition, there are service agribusinesses, notably supermarkets. [...] Agribusiness now includes all businesses whose raw materials are primarily products of the land and the sea.",
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          "ref": "1983 September 21, Steven R. Tabor, Larry C. Morgan, “Agricultural Production Contracting in Pakistan: A Case Study in Agribusiness Innovation”, in Pakistan’s Edible Oilseeds Industry: […], Washington, D.C.: United States Agency for International Development, published March 1984, →OCLC, part VII (Marketing and Pricing Policies), section VI (Conclusion), paragraph 6.2, page 605",
          "text": "The notable difference between the performance of the government's agricultural firms and private agribusinesses is that the private firms use formal production contracts. These contracts add a measure of market security to both the processing factory and the grower which is the cornerstone of an economic atmosphere conducive to rapid agricultural development.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1990, “Introduction and Background”, in Agricultural Engineering in Development: Guidelines for Mechanization Systems and Machinery Rehabilitation Programmes (FAO Agricultural Services Bulletin; 85), Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, page 1",
          "text": "The following broad categories of machinery users can be identified: / ― Estates, plantations, and large agri-businesses that purchase their machinery outright or with credit from commercial banks, and have their own maintenance and repair facilities; [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Peter Webber, “Economic Activity”, in The UK (Places and Cases), Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Stanley Thornes (Publishers), page 50",
          "text": "Farms are often owned by large companies and are run as agri-businesses which specialise for contract farming.",
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          "ref": "2006, Sunil Bharti Mittal, “The Corporate Sector Must Turn Around Agriculture”, in India Empowered: Change Agents Speak on an Idea whose Time has Come, New Delhi: Viking, page 273",
          "text": "Empowerment is not a moment of epiphany. It sometimes involves a simple direction of helping people help themselves. In Punjab, for example, when we started contract farming for our agri-business, we deliberately involved the women folk in the villages to work in the fields.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, J. Dennis Lord, “Poultry”, in John T. Edge, editor, Foodways (The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture; 7), Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, page 93",
          "text": "The poultry industry is characterized by a vertical integration in which an agribusiness firm, either through direct ownership or contract, controls the entire production process. Such firms own processing plants, feed mills, and hatcheries, and contract with farmers to raise the chickens.",
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      "word": "農企業"
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      "word": "农业综合企业"
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    },
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      "code": "id",
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      "sense": "big business connected to agriculture",
      "word": "agribisnis"
    },
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "agroverslas"
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      "word": "agronegócio"
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      "word": "agribisnis"
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