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Term: AGIST
Definition: When someone lets their animals eat grass on someone else's land for money, it's called agist.
Definition: Agist (pronounced uh-jist) is a verb that means to let animals graze on your land for a fee.
These examples show how agist is used to describe the act of allowing animals to graze on one's land for a fee. In the first example, the farmer is renting out his pasture to his neighbor's cows. In the second example, the rancher is using her land to provide a service to horse owners who need a place for their animals to graze.