husbandry

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hus=band=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

husbandry, n. 

•  Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift.  [1913 Webster]

  "There's husbandry in heaven;
  Their candles are all out."  [1913 Webster]
•  The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming.  [1913 Webster]

  "Husbandry supplieth all things necessary for food."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

husbandry, n.
1 farming.
2 a management of resources. b careful management.

THESAURUS

husbandry

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

ROGET THESAURUS

husbandry

Conduct

N conduct, behavior, deportment, comportment, carriage, maintien, demeanor, guise, bearing, manner, observance, dealing, transaction, business, tactics, game, game plan, policy, polity, generalship, statesmanship, seamanship, strategy, strategics, plan, management, husbandry, housekeeping, housewifery, stewardship, menage, regime, economy, economics, political economy, government, 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, path, conducting, strategical, businesslike, practical, executive.

Economy

N economy, frugality, thrift, thriftiness, care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness, retrenchment, savings, prevention of waste, save-all, cheese parings and candle ends, parsimony, cost-cutting, cost control, economical, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare, sparing, parsimonious, underpaid, sparingly, ne quid nimis, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit, magnum est vectigal parsimonia.

Husbandry

N husbandry, taming, circuration, zoohygiantics, domestication, domesticity, manege, veterinary art, farriery, breeding, pisciculture, menagerie, vivarium, zoological garden, bear pit, aviary, apiary, alveary, beehive, hive, aquarium, fishery, duck pond, fish pond, phthisozoics, euthanasia, sacrifice, humane destruction, neatherd, cowherd, shepherd, grazier, drover, cowkeeper, trainer, breeder, apiarian, apiarist, bull whacker, cowboy, cow puncher, farrier, horse leech, horse doctor, vaquero, veterinarian, vet, veterinary surgeon, cage, hencoop, bird cage, cauf, range, sheepfold, pastoral, bucolic, tame, domestic.

Agriculture

N 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, parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard, vineyard, vinery, orangery, farm, agricultural, agrarian, agrestic, arable, predial, rural, rustic, country, horticultural.