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Wednesday 13th November 2024

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husbandry (noun) HUZZ-bund-ree

Economical management, thrift, frugal management; farming.

Both are workaholics. Both emerged from ascetic low-church backgrounds with firm faith in good husbandry and industry, plus a Victorian notion of the deserving poor.

Unattributed, The Economist, 13 September 2007. Economist

From him I learnt that sap rises and falls like the tide, that sowing and planting – the husbandry of increase – must be done during the waxing phases of the moon, that all Bramley seedlings are descended from a single tree in a Northampton backyard.

Rory MacLean, Guardian Unlimited, 22 June 2007, Guardian Unlimited
reviewing Roger Deakin's Wildwood: A Journey through Trees. Amazon

The rustic logic of animal husbandry is based on a belief that all government agencies are bad, even if they were established to prevent you from getting ill, which you would have thought was good.

Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 1 May 2006. The New Yorker

A prominent politician caused a sensation recently when he called on newly elected public officials from his opposition party to be not just scrupulous in their husbandry of government funds but also faithful in their role as husbands.

Sam Dillon, The New York Times, 22 January 1997.

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