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  • noun Plural form of husbandry.

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Examples

  • Or again, in a plethoric condition of the corn and wine market these fruits of the soil will be so depreciated in value that the particular husbandries cease to be remunerative, and many a farmer will give up his tillage of the soil and betake himself to the business of a merchant, or of a shopkeeper, to banking or money-lending.

    Ways and Means 2007

  • Jenkins 'transfer from comptroller to secretary of state opened a way for the appointment of Archibald McIntyre, whose safe custody of the purse in days when economies and husbandries were in order, distinguished him as a faithful official, and kept him in office until

    A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

  • His second Wife, Dorothea, who planted the Lindens in Berlin, and did other husbandries, fell far short of Louisa in many things, but not in tendency to advise, to remonstrate, and plaintively reflect on the finished and unalterable.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

  • Or again, in a plethoric condition of the corn and wine market these fruits of the soil will be so depreciated in value that the particular husbandries cease to be remunerative, and many

    On Revenues 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

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