husbandry
pronunciation
How to pronounce husbandry in British English:
UK [ˈhʌzbəndri]
How to pronounce husbandry in American English:
US [ˈhʌzbəndri]
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- Noun:
- the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
Word Origin
- husbandry
- c. 1300, "management of a household;" late 14c. as "farm management," from husband (n.) in a now-obsolete sense of "peasant farmer" (early 13c.) + -ery.
Example
- 1. Better husbandry might help , too .
- 2. She initiated a debate about agriculture 's large-scale animal husbandry , a debate that gradually enforced a new animal protection law .
- 3. As long as it doesn 't require me to do any math or video-documented animal husbandry , I will write anything .
- 4. Dr post , who works at eindhoven university in the netherlands , belongs to a group of people who hope to disrupt one of mankind 's oldest industries-animal husbandry .
- 5. For the western oil companies , there is a steady process of good husbandry : selling some unattractive assets here , buying some more appealing ones there .