to ranch
3
4.2
- verb
- /ræntʃ/
- US
:
criar ganado
- - We don't have to ranch!
- ranched bison
- ranched bison herds
- Cattle ranching
I mean, my friends ranch, there's nobody for miles.
- I mean, my friends ranch, there's nobody for miles.
Examples
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My dad ranched right up here in the Ruby Mountains.
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Rob Cope married a few years later; he and his wife ranched until his health began to fail.
Fiction book (1998) -
Except I'll learn to ranch.
Fiction book (1992) -
What are you gonna do if he doesn't want to ranch?
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My family ranched near Taylor's family.
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I've just had to hear this from all the other dreamers trying to ranch around here.
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The company currently ranches about 60 square miles of land, half of which is leased from the government.
Academic text (1994) -
Dale ranched near the Tularosa on land handed down through three generations.
Fiction book (2000) -
Otto and Jenny Eder also ranched in the Blackfoot drainage.
Academic text (2001) -
After years of hard work, she decided to ranch in Montana, focusing on raising cattle.
Synonyms
42
1.0
To grow crops or raise animals for food
Idioms
Compounds
- US
4
5.9
A holiday place on a ranch where guests stay and try cowboy activities like horseback riding
How Involved
Surface Forms
Etymology
To ranch (verb) comes from the noun ranch and simply means to run or manage that kind of farm, much like the more common word 'farm' but usually for cattle or horses. So to ranch is to work on and care for a ranch and its animals.