husbandry

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hus·band·ry | \ ˈhəz-bən-drē

Definition of husbandry

1a : the cultivation or production of plants or animals : agriculture

b : the scientific control and management of a branch of farming and especially of domestic animals

2 : the control or judicious use of resources : conservation

3 archaic : the care of a household

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Examples of husbandry in a Sentence

in accordance with his practice of good husbandry, he never buys anything on credit a family of winemakers whose tradition of vineyard husbandry goes back several generations

Recent Examples on the Web The Black Death of the mid-1300s resulted in a shift from farming to husbandry. — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 30 June 2020 Our husbandry, or animal care, staff—the ones who clean cages and feed the animals—is physically isolated by facility, as our animals are spread across 17 facilities on campus. — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 18 Mar. 2020 Some of the animal care and husbandry will be on public view, and the design of the exhibit space has been dictated by close observation of lion behavior through the years. — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2019 The consequence of this husbandry, according to Finland’s Natural Resources Institute, is that the annual growth of trees in Finland exceeds the volume of felling and natural loss by over 20m cubic metres, despite the increasing demand for wood. — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019 People feared the impact of the automobile on horse husbandry, carriage makers, and blacksmiths. — Justin Brady, Quartz, 21 Nov. 2019 And across the world, depending on the type of husbandry practised, farming is eroding soil at a rate between ten times and more than 100 times faster than new soil forms. — The Economist, 10 Aug. 2019 Another version of the dairy husbandry department — which is now the food science department — was established even earlier, in 1908. — Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 July 2019 The 1920s and 1930s produced some of the worst, and deadliest, floods in our history, many of them the result of bad farming habits and bad husbandry of the land. — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019

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