- a large farm, especially in North America or Australia, where cows, horses, sheep, etc. are bred (= kept in order to produce young)
- a cattle/sheep ranch
- ranch hands (= the people who work on a ranch)
Oxford Collocations DictionaryRanch is used before these nouns:- dressing
- home
- house
- …
Word Originearly 19th cent.: from Spanish rancho ‘group of persons eating together’.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See ranch in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybet the ranch/farm on something
- (North American English, informal) to risk everything you have on an investment, a bet, etc.
- The company bet the ranch on the new marketing model, only to find that it wasn't successful.
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