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husbandry

/huhz-buhn-dree/US // ˈhʌz bən dri //UK // (ˈhʌzbəndrɪ) //

畜牧业,牧业,畜牧,饲养业

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
    • : the science of raising crops or food animals.
    • : careful or thrifty management; frugality, thrift, or conservation.
    • : the management of domestic affairs or of resources generally.

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Examples

  • It took nearly 300 years for Peruvians to achieve independence, and longer for indigenous Andean peoples’ population and traditional husbandry practices to resume.

  • Maybe no one will be the “husband” (as in, animal husbandry) and no one the chattel.

  • What does that have to do with good animal husbandry and biodiversity?

  • They are experienced with the grim side of husbandry, but they are not inured to it.

  • Maybe some of my kind have taken on similar 'husbandry' projects.

  • I'd only just thought of the Borneo-New Guinea option and so those details seemed even more trivial than human husbandry.

  • When these covenants were made, Lysias went to the king, and the Jews gave themselves to husbandry.

  • He thought also that the duty on windows in farm-houses, and on horses used in husbandry, should be taken off entirely.

  • John Milton was a noble poet, but he was not a safe guide in matters pertaining to animal husbandry.

  • They were unfit for the mere routine of husbandry, and unprovided with funds for working their farms.

  • I am hard at work, studying spade husbandry, inspectors' reports of industrial schools, &c. I am glad you are all so happy.