husbandry
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
husbandry
- The occupation or work#Noun|work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of crop#Noun|crops and the raising#Noun|raising of livestock; agriculture.
- Synonyms: agronomy
- The prudent management or conservation of resources.
- Synonyms: economy, frugality, thrift
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene i], page 135 ↗, column 2:
- There's Husbandry in Heauen, / Their Candles are all out: {{...}
- (now, chiefly, nautical) Administration or management of day-to-day matter#Noun|matters.
- (obsolete) Agricultural or cultivated#Adjective|cultivated land#Noun|land.
- French: agriculture
- German: Haltung, Landwirtschaft
- Italian: agricoltura
- Portuguese: pecuária
- Russian: земледе́лие
- Spanish: agricultura
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