Meaning of HUSBANDRY
| Pronunciation: | | 'huzbundree
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| | Definition: | | [n] the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock |
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| | Synonyms: | | agriculture, farming |
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| | See Also: | | animal husbandry, aquiculture, arboriculture, cultivation, dairy farming, dairying, gardening, harvest, harvest time, horticulture, hydroponics, mixed farming, planting, ranching, strip cropping, subsistence farming, tank farming, tilling, tree farming, truck farming | |
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| | Definition: | | \Hus"band*ry\, n.
1. Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management;
thrift.
There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all
out. --Shak.
2. The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various
branches of agriculture; farming.
Husbandry supplieth all things necessary for food.
--Spenser.
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| | Related Terms: | | agrarianism, agricultural geology, agriculture, agrology, agronomics, agronomy, austerity, austerity program, authority, canniness, care, carefulness, chariness, command, conduct, contour farming, control, cultivation, culture, direction, dirt farming, domestic economy, domestic management, dry farming, dryland farming, economic planning, economicalness, economy, economy of means, false economy, farm economy, farming, forehandedness, frugality, frugalness, fruit farming, geoponics, good management, governance, government, grain farming, guidance, handling, home economics, homemaking, housekeeping, housewifery, hydroponics, intensive farming, lead, leading, management, managery, managing, manipulation, menage, mixed farming, ordering, parsimoniousness, parsimony, pilotage, providence, prudence, prudential administration, regulation, running, rural economy, sharecropping, sparingness, steerage, steering, strip farming, subsistence farming, tank farming, the conn, the helm, the wheel, thremmatology, thrift, thriftiness, tight purse strings, tillage, tilth, truck farming, unwastefulness |
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