husbandry
noun
1 husbandry
The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock.
synonyms: agriculture, farming.
Roget 370:
husbandry,
taming
etc.
v.;
circuration†,
zoohygiantics†;
domestication,
domesticity;
manege [Fr.],
veterinary art;
farriery†;
breeding,
pisciculture.
menagerie,
vivarium,
zoological garden;
bear pit;
aviary,
apiary,
alveary†,
beehive;
hive;
aquarium,
fishery;
duck pond,
fish pond.
phthisozoics
etc.
(killing)
361†
[Destruction of animals];
euthanasia,
sacrifice,
humane destruction.
neatherd†,
cowherd,
shepherd;
grazier,
drover,
cowkeeper†;
trainer,
breeder;
apiarian†,
apiarist;
bull whacker [U.S.],
cowboy,
cow puncher [U.S.],
farrier;
horse leech,
horse doctor;
vaquero,
veterinarian,
vet,
veterinary surgeon.
cage
etc.
(prison)
752;
hencoop†,
bird cage,
cauf†;
range,
sheepfold,
etc.
(inclosure)
232.
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Roget 371:
agriculture,
cultivation,
husbandry,
farming;
georgics,
geoponics†;
tillage,
agronomy,
gardening,
spade husbandry,
vintage;
horticulture,
arboriculture†,
floriculture;
landscape gardening;
viticulture.
husbandman,
horticulturist,
gardener,
florist;
agricultor†,
agriculturist;
yeoman,
farmer,
cultivator,
tiller of the soil,
woodcutter,
backwoodsman;
granger,
habitat,
vigneron†,
viticulturist;
Triptolemus.
field,
meadow,
garden;
botanic garden†,
winter garden,
ornamental garden,
flower garden,
kitchen garden,
market garden,
hop garden;
nursery;
green house,
hot house;
conservatory,
bed,
border,
seed plot;
grassplot†,
grassplat†,
lawn;
park
etc.
(pleasure ground)
840;
parterre,
shrubbery,
plantation,
avenue,
arboretum,
pinery†,
pinetum†,
orchard;
vineyard,
vinery;
orangery†;
farm
etc.
(abode)
189.
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Roget 692:
conduct
[actions of an individual agent];
behavior;
deportment,
comportment;
carriage,
maintien†,
demeanor,
guise,
bearing,
manner,
observance.
dealing,
transaction
etc.
(action)
680;
business
etc.
625.
tactics,
game,
game plan,
policy,
polity;
generalship,
statesmanship,
seamanship;
strategy,
strategics†;
plan
etc.
626.
management;
husbandry;
housekeeping,
housewifery;
stewardship;
menage;
regime;
economy,
economics;
political economy;
government
etc.
(direction)
693.
execution,
manipulation,
treatment,
campaign,
career,
life,
course,
walk,
race,
record.
course of conduct,
line of conduct,
line of action,
line of proceeding;
role;
process,
ways,
practice,
procedure,
modus operandi,
MO,
method of operating;
method
&c.;
path
etc.
627.
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Roget 817:
economy,
frugality;
thrift,
thriftiness;
care,
husbandry,
good housewifery,
savingness†,
retrenchment.
savings;
prevention of waste,
save-all;
cheese parings and candle ends;
parsimony
etc.
819.
cost-cutting,
cost control.
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Dutch: veeteelt, akkerbouw, landbouw
Polish: kultura, agrokultura
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