husbandry

husbandry

noun

Definition of HUSBANDRY

1

careful management of material resources <in accordance with his practice of good husbandry, he never buys anything on credit>

Synonyms frugality, husbandry, parsimony, penny-pinching, providence, scrimping, skimping, thrift

Related Words conservation, saving; miserliness, niggardliness, stinginess; belt-tightening, retrenchment; discretion, forehandedness, prudence; austerity, moderation, restraint, temperance

Near Antonyms extravagance, improvidence, lavishness, prodigality, squandering

Antonyms diseconomy, wastefulness

2

the science or occupation of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock <a family of winemakers whose tradition of vineyard husbandry goes back several generations>

Synonyms farming, husbandry

Related Words cultivation, culture, farmwork, gardening, horticulture, tillage; agribusiness, agroecology, agronomy; agroforestry, arboriculture, pomology; aquaculture (also aquiculture), hydroponics; animal husbandry, mixed farming, monoculture, pastoralism; sharecropping