英语词汇farm out的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

farm out. Branch Rickey, then with the St. Louis Cardinals, founded baseball’s first farm system in 1918, buying stock in minor league teams on which he cultivated new players for the Cardinals. These clubs became widely known as farm teams and the major league players sent down to them from the par- ent club for more seasoning (or forever) were said to be farmed out. (The expression had been used for the sale of a major leaguer to the minors 15 years or so before this.) The term is now also used to mean assigning work to another person by fi- nancial agreement.

词汇	farm out
词源	farm out. Branch Rickey, then with the St. Louis Cardinals, founded baseball’s first farm system in 1918, buying stock in minor league teams on which he cultivated new players for the Cardinals. These clubs became widely known as farm teams and the major league players sent down to them from the par- ent club for more seasoning (or forever) were said to be farmed out. (The expression had been used for the sale of a major leaguer to the minors 15 years or so before this.) The term is now also used to mean assigning work to another person by fi- nancial agreement.
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