rancher

CEFRB2

/rˈæntʃər/

noun

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Tom is a cattle rancher.
By the 1960s in North America sprawling ranchers and backsplits with attached garages had become common […]
That story begins in rural Wyoming in 1963, when drifters Ennis and Jack are hired by a local rancher to herd sheep through grazing ground on the titular Brokeback Mountain.

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That story begins in rural Wyoming in 1963, when drifters Ennis and Jack are hired by a local rancher to herd sheep through grazing ground on the titular Brokeback Mountain.
2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC, archived from the origina...
By the 1960s in North America sprawling ranchers and backsplits with attached garages had become common […]
1987, E. C. Relph, The Modern Urban Landscape: 1880 to the Present, page 174
We know that if a realtor got a listing for a rancher in the neighborhood of property one: that similar houses there will sell, with some effort, for about $59,000.
2009, Thomas Collins, How to Invest in Real Estate, page 21

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From ranch + -er.