agri-, comb. form
Brit. /ˈagri/, U.S. /ˈægri/
[‹ agri- (in agriculture n.). Compare agro- comb. form and classical Latin agrī, genitive of ager field (see acre n.).
Many compounds containing this element have equivalents in agro- comb. form (compare e.g. agro-industry n. beside agri-industry n. at Affix 2, agrobusiness n. at agro- comb. form Affix 2 beside agribusiness n., etc.).]
Affix. Prefixed to nouns with the sense ‘relating to, based on, or derived from agriculture’, as agricommunity, agridish, agrigarb, agrigenetics, agrimart, agripower, agri-silviculture, etc.
| 1944 Ann. Admin. Rep. Sind Forest Dept. 1942–3 (Karachi) iii. 13 The details of Irrigated plantation areas leased for agri-silviculture, etc., have been given above. 1973 Albertan (Calgary, Alberta) 24 Mar. 1/1 The compromise on a new site for the controversial agrimart in northeast Calgary seems to have collapsed, mayor Rod Sykes announced Friday. 1973 N.Y. Times 16 July 29/1 Our monopoly of ‘agripower’ will provide leverage for forcing a quick stabilization of currencies as well as of domestic living costs. 1981 1982 Yearbk. Sci. & Future 318/2 Now communication technology is being developed to help the agricommunity make decisions more quickly and efficiently. 1981 J. May Many-colored Land i. xi. 66 A young couple and two older men, locals by the look of their agrigarb, sat at window tables. 1991 Washington Post 28 June f3/2 ‘There are tremendous opportunities for agricultural biopesticides,’ asserts Leo Kim, chief technical officer at Mycogen, a San Diego, Calif.-based agrigenetics company. 2002 A. Mednick Three Stories 18 Rastas believe in ‘ital’ (total and natural) foods, or ‘agridishes’, foods which grew from the earth. |
In more established compounds.
See also agribusiness n., agrichemical n., agrimotor n., agriproduct n. agri-food n. agricultural food products as a class; freq. attrib.
| 1977 Fortune Apr. 33/2 Mr. Bradshaw's propositions apply not only to the oil industry but, in a lesser degree, to other industries such as the *agri-food business. 1984 N. B. L. Ilwall & A. R. Hutchinson in World Agric. Econ. & Rural Sociol Abstr. (1985) 27 449/2 (title) Market opportunities in the Tayside agri-food sector. 2005 Guelph (Ontario) Mercury (Nexis) 7 Sept. a4 Key to answers in this area is an investment in agri-food research. |
agri-industrial adj. involving a combination of agriculture and industry; of or relating to agri-industry.
| 1959 Jrnl. Farm Econ. 41 17 The economy of Cuba is based on sugar, that of Ghana on cocoa and to lesser extent that of Brazil on coffee, with little prospect for the eventual establishment of a broader *agri-industrial economic base. 1999 Harrowsmith Country Life Feb. 14/4 Can..a 1,500-head cattle operation, a relative newcomer on the agri-industrial scene..be considered normal? |
agri-industry n. agriculture on an industrial scale or viewed as an industrial process; a combination of agricultural and industrial processes.
| 1950 Internat. Affairs 26 545 The author gives his own version of..social relationship in farming from capture to cultivation and from ‘agri-culture’ to ‘*agri-industry’. 1981 New Farm Mar.–Apr. 31/2 And as Kansans, whose family memories spanned the history of the state from the cattle drives to the agri-industry of wheat, they were perhaps peculiarly vulnerable to the deepening worries about soil loss, pollution, resource depletion. 2001 Independent 10 July ii. 5/4 Organic farming needs science that is far more subtle than the kind that drives agri-industry, yet some of its guiding ideas seem as implausible as rain-dances. |
agri-monetary adj. relating to agricultural finance, esp. in the European Union.
| 1976 Times 9 Feb. 17/7 This rise will be somewhat higher than on the Continent because of the United Kingdom's next transitional step and the Commission's *agri-monetary proposals for the ‘joint float’ currencies. 2000 Farmers Weekly 18–24 Feb. 73/4 Any chance of agri-monetary compensation that we Ulster farmers had will have been suspended with the assembly. |
agri-tourism n. the visiting of agricultural areas and attractions as a leisure activity; the sector of the tourist industry based on this; cf. agro-tourism n. at agro- comb. form Additions.
| 1978 Times 20 Jan. (Emilia-Romagna Suppl.) p. ii/3 (advt.) As part of its efforts to foster low cost holiday-making, the regional authority is to make loans to fit out farmhouses which can then be rented in certain parts of the year (‘*agri-tourism’). 1997 Wellsboro (Pennsylvania) Gaz. 2 Apr. (Outdoors section) 6/4 Pennsylvania Farm Vocation Association, [granted] $3,000, to promote agri-tourism through a ‘see the Real PA!’ advertising and public relations program. 2003 Independent 5 Apr. (Traveller section) 5/2 Agritourism holidays are also on the increase in Spain. These casas rurales offer good value for money and are also very popular with Spanish holidaymakers. |