Moshav vs. Farm — What's the Difference?

A moshav (Hebrew: מוֹשָׁב, plural מוֹשָׁבִים moshavim, lit. settlement, village) is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 and 1914, during what is known as the second wave of aliyah.

A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used for specialized units such as arable farms, vegetable farms, fruit farms, dairy, pig and poultry farms, and land used for the production of natural fiber, biofuel and other commodities.

An Israeli cooperative settlement consisting of small separate farms.

An area of land and its buildings, used for growing crops and rearing animals

An Israeli town or settlement: in particular, a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah.

Make one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock

A cooperative Israeli village or settlement comprised of small farms

Send out or subcontract work to others

Allow someone to collect and keep the revenues from (a tax) on payment of a fee

A tract of land cultivated for the purpose of agricultural production.

A tract of land devoted to the raising and breeding of domestic animals.

An area of water devoted to the raising, breeding, or production of a specific aquatic animal

A facility for the generation of energy by converting it from a particular source, usually by means of multiple electric generators

A place where a group of similar devices or storage containers are set up

(Baseball) A minor-league club affiliated with a major-league club for the training of recruits and the maintenance of temporarily unneeded players.

The system of leasing out the rights of collecting and retaining taxes in a certain district.

A district so leased.

To cultivate or produce a crop on (land).

To cultivate, breed, or raise (plants or animals).

To pay a fixed sum in order to have the right to collect and retain profits from (a business, for example).

To turn over (a business, for example) to another in return for the payment of a fixed sum.

To engage in farming.

A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.

A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.

A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures.

(computing) A group of coordinated servers.

(obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal.

(obsolete) A banquet; feast.

(obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.

(historical) A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which he is empowered to collect; also, a fixed charge imposed on a town, county, etc., in respect of a tax or taxes to be collected within its limits.

(historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.

The body of farmers of public revenues.

The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.

(historical) A baby farm.

(intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.

(transitive) To devote (land) to farming.

(transitive) To grow (a particular crop).

To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; to farm out.

To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.

To take at a certain rent or rate.

To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.

To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out

The rent of land, - originally paid by reservation of part of its products.

The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.

The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.

Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.

A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.

A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.

To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.

To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes.

To take at a certain rent or rate.

To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.

To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.

Workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit;

Be a farmer; work as a farmer;

Collect fees or profits

Cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques;