dairying

noun

dairy·​ing ˈder-ē-iŋ 

: the business of operating a dairy

Examples of dairying in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Subsistence farming gave way to commercial dairying and gardening for market. — Riley Robinson, Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2025

Eventually, an organic wheat market grew up in Vermont, with farmers – often those who had been involved in dairying – planting more acreage of the grain. — Riley Robinson, Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2025

European countries largely industrialized their dairying procedures in the 1970s and 1980s. — Virginia Gewin, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2020

The changing face of the Mackenzie environment is yet another display of the consequences of intensive dairying that are rankling with voters four months before a general election. — Matthew Brockett, Bloomberg.com, 1 June 2017

Word History

First Known Use

1649, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for dairying

• burying
• ferrying
• harrying
• marrying
• parrying
• tarrying
• varying
• unvarying

Kids Definition

dairying

noun

dairy·​ing ˈder-ē-iŋ 

: the business of operating a dairy