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/ˈɡɹeɪziə(ɹ)/ · noun
(UK, historical) One who grazes cattle and/or sheep on a rural property..
Graziers on the tablelands are in dire straits because they do not have enough winter feed and will have to keep reducing stock.
They came ungraciously, but after his dark, bodeful hints as to the necessity of their attending service at the grazier's homestead next day, he was invited inside and a place was cleared for him at the table.
As a result of these causes the grazier marks himself off fairly sharply from the rest of Australia. He has always spent a considerable proportion of the time in the capital cities, in each of which he has formed a club to which, besides the graziers, only a few of the wealthiest and most prominent of the city dwellers are admitted.
They have been here, the bora rings, for over twenty thousand years, it is believed; it is only in the past hundred, a hiccup in time, that indifferent graziers and the treads of their four-wheel drives have scattered the stones and have imprinted zippered cars across their sacred clay skin.
The ‘grazier’ image can be contrasted to that of the ‘cocky’. Graziers have tended to own large tracts of land, have inherited family wealth from the heady days of high wool prices, often reside in stately homes, possess a good education, and have taken leadership roles in the industry.
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Grazier means (UK, historical) One who grazes cattle and/or sheep on a rural property..
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Graziers on the tablelands are in dire straits because they do not have enough winter feed and will have to keep reducing stock.
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