Agrarian
/əˈɡreriən/adjective
Related to farming and the use of land for farming.
The agrarian society relied heavily on the seasonal harvests.
Often appears as...
- agrarian society
- agrarian reform
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Academic
adjective
Belonging to or advocating the movement for equal distribution of lands.
He was part of the agrarian revolution.
Often appears as...
- agrarian revolution
- agrarian standoff
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Formal
Academic
adjective
Related to farming and the use of land for farming.
The agrarian society relied heavily on the seasonal harvests.
Often appears as...
- agrarian society
- agrarian reform
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Belonging to or advocating the movement for equal distribution of lands.
He was part of the agrarian revolution.
Often appears as...
- agrarian revolution
- agrarian standoff
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Farming Context
Used when discussing agricultural practices or societies where farming is central to lifestyle and economy.
Agrarian techniques evolved with the introduction of new machinery.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Rural Life
Often refers to historical periods when farming was a dominant economic activity.
Medieval Europe was predominantly agrarian.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Shifts
Use when describing a transition from a farming-based society to an industrial or urban society.
The country's agrarian roots affected its industrial development.
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Don Tapscott: Four...
The open world is bringing empowerment and freedom. I think, at the end of these four days, that you'll come to conclude that the arc of history is a positive one, and it's towards openness. If you go back a few hundred years, all around the world it was a very closed society. It was agrarian, and the means of production
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Joseph Pine: What...
because in the beginning were commodities. Commodities are things that you grow in the ground, raise on the ground or pull out of the basically, animal, mineral, vegetable. And then you extract them out of the ground, and sell them on the open marketplace. Commodities were the basis of the agrarian economy
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Toni Griffin: A new...
to create a better life for their families, only to see their great-grandchildren return to an agrarian lifestyle, especially in a city where they came with little less than a high school education or even a grammar school education and were able to afford the basic elements of the American
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Upgrading management...
spent a day in the state of flow that we all love these processes they leave sparse time for people to experience the state of flow and they interrupt us all too frequently consider for example annual performance reviews of frustrating relics from our agrarian roots if I were to ask
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Our failing schools....
kids lose ground in the summertime the system decides you can't run schools in the summer you know I wonder who might mix up those rules for years I went to look I went to the Harvard ed school I thought I knew something they said was the agrarian calendar and the people but
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Seafood and Survival PIPE...
which I'm gonna butcher here but he said we went from a hunter-gatherer society to an agrarian culture from agrarian we moved to a civilized society the next great leap in our evolution will be to become humanized and I don't know of anything that is more human than the
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Four principles for the...
end of these four days that you'll come to conclude that the arc of history is a positive one and it's towards openness if you go back a few hundred years all around the world it was a very closed society was agrarian and the means of production and political system
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How the blockchain is...
like land under the agrarian economy, or an industrial plant, or even money. And all of you -- we -- create this data. We create this asset, and we leave this trail of digital crumbs behind us as we go throughout life.
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Our lonely society makes...
If you live in modern society, you're up to eight times more likely to suffer from depression in your lifetime than if you live in a poor, agrarian society.
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How will we survive when...
closer to the earth, a more agrarian world of maximum human connection and reduced corporate control. More people live in the countryside in this vision,
Video examples
Don Tapscott: Four...
The open world is bringing empowerment and freedom. I think, at the end of these four days, that you'll come to conclude that the arc of history is a positive one, and it's towards openness. If you go back a few hundred years, all around the world it was a very closed society. It was agrarian, and the means of production
Video examples
Joseph Pine: What...
because in the beginning were commodities. Commodities are things that you grow in the ground, raise on the ground or pull out of the basically, animal, mineral, vegetable. And then you extract them out of the ground, and sell them on the open marketplace. Commodities were the basis of the agrarian economy
Video examples
Toni Griffin: A new...
to create a better life for their families, only to see their great-grandchildren return to an agrarian lifestyle, especially in a city where they came with little less than a high school education or even a grammar school education and were able to afford the basic elements of the American
Video examples
Upgrading management...
spent a day in the state of flow that we all love these processes they leave sparse time for people to experience the state of flow and they interrupt us all too frequently consider for example annual performance reviews of frustrating relics from our agrarian roots if I were to ask
Video examples
Our failing schools....
kids lose ground in the summertime the system decides you can't run schools in the summer you know I wonder who might mix up those rules for years I went to look I went to the Harvard ed school I thought I knew something they said was the agrarian calendar and the people but
Video examples
Seafood and Survival PIPE...
which I'm gonna butcher here but he said we went from a hunter-gatherer society to an agrarian culture from agrarian we moved to a civilized society the next great leap in our evolution will be to become humanized and I don't know of anything that is more human than the
Video examples
Four principles for the...
end of these four days that you'll come to conclude that the arc of history is a positive one and it's towards openness if you go back a few hundred years all around the world it was a very closed society was agrarian and the means of production and political system
Video examples
How the blockchain is...
like land under the agrarian economy, or an industrial plant, or even money. And all of you -- we -- create this data. We create this asset, and we leave this trail of digital crumbs behind us as we go throughout life.
Video examples
Our lonely society makes...
If you live in modern society, you're up to eight times more likely to suffer from depression in your lifetime than if you live in a poor, agrarian society.
Video examples
How will we survive when...
closer to the earth, a more agrarian world of maximum human connection and reduced corporate control. More people live in the countryside in this vision,
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Brian Deese
In the early 19th century, when the country was transitioning from an agrarian to an industrial economy, we subsidised transportation and created a national bank. In the post-WWII era, we as a federal government made strategic investments in emerging technologies including microelectronics, telecommunications and biotechnology.
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Michael Paterniti
American Writer
What the Khmer Rouge had in store was a radical agrarian revolution, one with the professed aim of completely renovating society while giving the peasants a better life, of evening the rewards and feeding the hungry, of bringing a rational and utilitarian nation-state into being.
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Fidel Castro
Statesman
When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.
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Pim Fortuyn
Dutch Politician
The biggest problem is integrating people from countries with Islamic agrarian cultures. They don't share with us the core values of modernity and think quite differently about relationships between women and men and individual responsibility.
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Tony Judt
British Historian
I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.
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Jorge M. Perez
American Businessman
I was never supposed to be a businessman. I was going to change the world. I was going to go back to Latin America and work on agrarian reform and equalize the differences between rich and poor.
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Filipino Statesman
Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
American Businessman
As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.
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Amarinder Singh
Indian Politician
With its largely agrarian society, Punjab is affected more than many other states by the Centre's anti-farmer stance.
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Sharad Pawar
Indian Politician
When I was agriculture minister, we drafted specific policies to tackle the agrarian crisis.
Quote examples
Brian Deese
In the early 19th century, when the country was transitioning from an agrarian to an industrial economy, we subsidised transportation and created a national bank. In the post-WWII era, we as a federal government made strategic investments in emerging technologies including microelectronics, telecommunications and biotechnology.
Quote examples
Michael Paterniti
American Writer
What the Khmer Rouge had in store was a radical agrarian revolution, one with the professed aim of completely renovating society while giving the peasants a better life, of evening the rewards and feeding the hungry, of bringing a rational and utilitarian nation-state into being.
Quote examples
Fidel Castro
Statesman
When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.
Quote examples
Pim Fortuyn
Dutch Politician
The biggest problem is integrating people from countries with Islamic agrarian cultures. They don't share with us the core values of modernity and think quite differently about relationships between women and men and individual responsibility.
Quote examples
Tony Judt
British Historian
I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.
Quote examples
Jorge M. Perez
American Businessman
I was never supposed to be a businessman. I was going to change the world. I was going to go back to Latin America and work on agrarian reform and equalize the differences between rich and poor.
Quote examples
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Filipino Statesman
Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.
Quote examples
Joseph B. Wirthlin
American Businessman
As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.
Quote examples
Amarinder Singh
Indian Politician
With its largely agrarian society, Punjab is affected more than many other states by the Centre's anti-farmer stance.
Quote examples
Sharad Pawar
Indian Politician
When I was agriculture minister, we drafted specific policies to tackle the agrarian crisis.
Example 1 of 10
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