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husbandry

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of husbandry

1 careful management of material resources

  • in accordance with his practice of good husbandry, he never buys anything on credit
Synonyms of husbandry

economy, frugality, parsimony, penny-pinching, providence, scrimping, skimping, thrift
Words Related to husbandry

conservation, saving

miserliness, niggardliness, stinginess

belt-tightening, retrenchment

discretion, forehandedness, prudence

austerity, moderation, restraint, temperance
Near Antonyms of husbandry

extravagance, improvidence, lavishness, prodigality, squandering
Antonyms of husbandry

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 of husbandry

agriculture, farming
Words Related to husbandry

cultivation, culture, farmwork, gardening, horticulture, tillage

agribusiness, agroecology, agronomy

agroforestry, arboriculture, pomology

aquaculture (also aquiculture), hydroponics

animal husbandry, mixed farming, monoculture, pastoralism

sharecropping

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