extension agent
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5.7
- noun
- /ɪkˈstɛnʃən ˈeɪdʒənt/
:
agente de extensión
- The county hired an extension agent to help farmers improve their crop yields through better techniques.
- county extension agents
- agricultural extension agent
Examples
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There should be an extension agent who can give you guidelines for wintering chickens.
Blog text (2) -
"Currently, the authority is working with an agricultural extension agent to develop a potting soil recipe.
Academic text (1995) -
Individual pond owners, assisted by company extension agents, manage the shrimp for the four months remaining until harvest.
Academic text (1990) -
Davidson started working on the EXNUT program when university extension agents complained that farmers failed to water on time for lack of reliable information.
Academic text (1996) -
County extension agent Harold Wilson, of Terrell County, Georgia, convinced six farmers in his area to give EXNUT a try.
Academic text (1996) -
For example, in the 1970s, agricultural extension agents convinced several farmers in Santa Cruz and Palomas to plant pineapples.
Academic text (1997) -
PHOTO (COLOR): Mississippi State extension agent Charles Hogue, Jr., takes an oxygen reading from one of the catfish ponds at Arrowhead Farm.
Academic text (2003) -
The company also encouraged farmers to heed the advice offered by a recently created network of agricultural extension agents and distributed its own "Antidotes for the Boll Weevil" circulars.
Academic text (2007) -
Ohio State University extension agent Randy Zondag (left) shows nurseryman Robert Lyons coverage of tinopal tracer on a water-sensitive card.
Academic text (2000) -
For the cover crops in the study, Brennan, along with Mark Mason, T&A's pest control advisor, and Richard Smith, a local University of California Cooperative Extension agent, decided to plant Merced rye and Sudan grass.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
1
5.8
A government worker who gives farmers and rural families advice about farming and household matters
A government worker who advises farmers and families on growing crops and running a home
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound literally denotes an 'agent' who carries out 'extension' activities, so learners can infer it refers to a person providing some kind of outreach or service; this gives a clear clue to an advisory or service role. However, the specific institutional meaning (agricultural/home-economics outreach worker employed by extension services) is specialized and not fully predictable from the everyday sense of 'extension', so it is only partially transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Extension agent comes from the idea of extension — bringing knowledge from a school or government out into the countryside — and agent, a person who delivers it, so picture someone walking into the fields with new farming ideas. So, extension agent means a local advisor who gives practical 'advice' to farmers and families about crops and home skills.