- Archaic management of domestic affairs, resources, etc.
- careful, thrifty management; thrift; frugality
- the science or art of farming
Origin of husbandry
Middle English husbonderie: see husband
noun
- Thrifty management of a household is an example of husbandry.
- The practice of managing a farm, growing crops and breeding animals is an example of husbandry.
Husbandry is defined as managing resources or caring for animals and crops.
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- a. The act or practice of cultivating crops and breeding and raising livestock; agriculture.b. The application of scientific principles to agriculture, especially to animal breeding.
- Careful management or conservation of resources; economy.
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The application of scientific principles to agriculture, especially to animal breeding.
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Noun
(plural husbandries)
- The raising of livestock and the cultivation of crops; agriculture
- The prudent management or conservation of resources
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Sentence Examples
- No crop responds more readily to careful husbandry and skilful cultivation.
- When she was studying animal husbandry, there was a chapter about increasing fertility.
- I didn't get a degree in animal husbandry so I could sit in the house knitting booties.
- But the progress of husbandry, evidenced by the production of larger and better crops with more certainty, is due to that rationalizing of agricultural practices which is the work of modern times.
- Under the manorial system, the rise of which preceded the Norman Conquest, communal methods of husbandry remained, but the position of the cultivator was radically altered.
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Words near husbandry in the dictionary
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