Husbandry

Quick meaning: Husbandry is a noun meaning The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.

Meaning

The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.

More Meanings

1. The prudent management or conservation of resources.
2. (now chiefly nautical) Administration or management of day-to-day matters.
3. Techniques of animal care.
4. (obsolete) Agricultural or cultivated land.

Example Sentences

There's Husbandry in Heauen, / Their Candles are all out: […]

As to Perſons of Quality, they give Security to appropriate a certain Sum for each Child, ſuitable to their Condition; and theſe Funds are always managed with good Husbandry and the moſt exact Juſtice.

On grain farms, it is considered good economy to keep one sheep for every acre of cleared land which the farm contains; on those where mixed husbandry is practiced, two; and on those exclusively devoted to sheep, three.

Both the foraging in fields and woods and the small husbandries of household and barn have now been almost entirely replaced by the "consumer economy," which assumes that it is better to buy whatever one needs than to find it or make it or grow it.

Word Forms

• husbandries

Synonyms for husbandry

Depending on context, synonyms include agronomy, economy, frugality, thrift, farming, agriculture.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include farming, agriculture, farm, cultivation, grazing, ranch.

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