0 the act of paying farmers in order not to grow crops on areas of land, or land of this type
1 a part of an amount of government money that must be used to give work to businesses owned by women or minorities (= group who have a different race, culture, or religion to most other people):
3 a system in the European Union in which farmers are paid not to use part of their land in order to reduce the amount of a crop on the market or control prices: