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cube farm

[ kyoob fahrm ]

noun

Slang.
  1. an office space containing individual cubicles instead of rooms.


cube farm

noun

  1. informal.
    an office which is divided up by mid-height partitions to create separate work spaces
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of cube farm1

First recorded in 1995–2000
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It drives me nuts overhearing them in the cube farm, but I’m not really sure if it’s worth raising it with management and possibly getting one or both in trouble.

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With links to applications for writer’s residencies in Nebraska, Oregon, Scotland, Iceland and more, it’s great escapism if you work in a cube farm — so much fodder with which to fantasize about typing away for long, blissfully uninterrupted weeks with the backdrop of some remote, pastoral vista — whether or not you intend to actually apply.

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It is hard to have a private conversation in a cube farm, but when someone is trying to have a private conversation, let them do it as best they can.

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Dear Annie: I work in an office that used to be a “cube farm,” which was noisy and distracting enough, but now we’ve gone to an “open plan” layout where there are no walls at all between workstations.

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“It is so much cooler to ask people to hang out with you on a ship than the your startup’s office breakroom,” says Baumgart, who worked in a “cube farm” at Motorola earlier.

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