husbandry
noun
[ ˈhʌzbəndri ]
• the care, cultivation, and breeding of crops and animals.
• "all aspects of animal husbandry"
Similar:
farm management,
farming,
agriculture,
land management,
agronomy,
agronomics,
agribusiness,
cultivation,
tillage,
animal husbandry,
• management and conservation of resources.
• "low borrowing demonstrates astute husbandry of resources"
Similar:
conservation,
careful management,
good housekeeping,
economy,
thrift,
thriftiness,
frugality,
saving,
budgeting,
sparingness,
Opposite:
wastefulness,
Origin:
Middle English: from husband in the obsolete sense ‘farmer’ + -ry; compare with husbandman.
