market garden
Chiefly British. truck farm.
Market Garden, Military. the Allied code name for the unsuccessful invasion of Holland by British and American airborne and infantry forces on September 17, 1944.
Origin of market garden
1Other words from market garden
- market gardener, noun
- market gardening, noun
Words Nearby market garden
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How to use market garden in a sentence
In the subsequent years, I have become a beekeeper and a farmer of a small market garden.
Your 401(k) is still likely to have a bumpy ride after the election | Michelle Singletary | November 9, 2020 | Washington PostI have promised the man a market-garden with a house on it close to the porter's lodge in the Rue Saint-Maur.
Honorine | Honore de BalzacDriven by an impulse of distaste for him and his house and market garden, I started to leave in secret.
Tramping on Life | Harry KempShe was reading to him about the business of a market garden.
Little Erik of Sweden | Madeline BrandeisNow and then a family finds a forgotten acre, builds a shack, and starts a small independent market garden.
Our Foreigners | Samuel P. Orth
As late as 1830, Winnisimmet was of no importance except as a market-garden and thoroughfare.
British Dictionary definitions for market garden
mainly British an establishment where fruit and vegetables are grown for sale
Derived forms of market garden
- market gardener, noun
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