'Husbandry' definitions:
Definition of 'husbandry'
From: WordNet
noun
The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock [syn: farming, agriculture, husbandry]
Definition of 'Husbandry'
From: GCIDE
- Husbandry \Hus"band*ry\, n.
- 1. Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift. [1913 Webster]
- There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming. [1913 Webster]
- Husbandry supplieth all things necessary for food. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'husbandry'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agrarianism,
- agricultural geology,
- agriculture,
- agrology,
- agronomics,
- agronomy,
- austerity,
- austerity program,
- authority,
- canniness,
- care,
- carefulness,
- chariness,
- command,
- conduct,
- contour farming,
- control,
- cultivation,
- culture,
- direction,
- dirt farming,
- domestic economy,
- domestic management,
- dry farming,
- dryland farming,
- economic planning,
- economicalness,
- economy,
- economy of means,
- false economy,
- farm economy,
- farming,
- forehandedness,
- frugality,
- frugalness,
- fruit farming,
- geoponics,
- good management,
- governance,
- government,
- grain farming,
- guidance,
- handling,
- home economics,
- homemaking,
- housekeeping,
- housewifery,
- hydroponics,
- intensive farming,
- lead,
- leading,
- management,
- managery,
- managing,
- manipulation,
- menage,
- mixed farming,
- ordering,
- parsimoniousness,
- parsimony,
- pilotage,
- providence,
- prudence,
- prudential administration,
- regulation,
- running,
- rural economy,
- sharecropping,
- sparingness,
- steerage,
- steering,
- strip farming,
- subsistence farming,
- tank farming,
- the conn,
- the helm,
- the wheel,
- thremmatology,
- thrift,
- thriftiness,
- tight purse strings,
- tillage,
- tilth,
- truck farming,
- unwastefulness