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Another word for husbandry

Noun

  1. The careful guarding of an asset

    2. See also:

    keep

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Sentence Examples

  • No crop responds more readily to careful husbandry and skilful cultivation.

  • When she was studying animal husbandry, there was a chapter about increasing fertility.

  • I didn't get a degree in animal husbandry so I could sit in the house knitting booties.

  • Greek husbandry had no salient characteristics.

  • But the progress of husbandry, evidenced by the production of larger and better crops with more certainty, is due to that rationalizing of agricultural practices which is the work of modern times.

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