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- noun A person who
husbands resources
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Examples
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There is, if you'll only stop to consider, no taint attached to being a husbander of acres.
A Lady of Expectations Laurens, Stephanie 1995
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There is, if you'll only stop to consider, no taint attached to being a husbander of acres.
A Lady of Expectations Laurens, Stephanie 1995
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Our Companion is a great husbander of light, and at the appointed moment, when “His hour is come,” He shall “bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.”
The Silver Lining: Messages of Hope and Cheer 1817-1893 1907
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Galvius was a careful husbander of the wine, and we drank mostly water from the spring.
Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900
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In 1608 he took up his abode at Whitby, where he gained the repute of being a wise man and great husbander of his property.
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