factory farm

1. 1.

   a large-scale farming enterprise

   Synonymsagribusinessagriculture

   Broadercommercial enterprise

Questions about factory farm

What does factory farm mean?

factory farm means "a large-scale farming enterprise".

What is another word for factory farm?

Close synonyms include agribusiness, agriculture. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is factory farm a common word?

factory farm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.