Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The breeding and raising of livestock.
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- noun The
breeding andrearing oflivestock
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Examples
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AS you know, the EXPO (industrial and stockbreeding fair) is being held right now.
Global Voices in English » Paraguay: As the H1N1 Virus Spreads 2009
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More than 80% of people here live in rural areas, and depend on subsistence agriculture and stockbreeding.
Caroline Gluck: Tens of thousands of animals dying as Niger faces food crisis 2010
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During the second half of the nineteenth century, large-scale commercial stockbreeding quickly spread over the semiarid drylands of North and South America, South Africa, and Australia.
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ABN is tasked with promoting regional cooperation in hydraulic engineering, agriculture, stockbreeding, fisheries and transport.
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Animal sacrifice had made sense when stockbreeding had been the basis of the economy, but the new kingdoms depended upon agricultural crops.
Buddha Armstrong, Karen, 1944- 2001
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I say with some sadness that some of those important centers -- because at one time we gave some of the best centers to the universities -- instead of solving the problems of the country and keeping an eye on what was going on in agriculture, stockbreeding, etc., basically concentrated on training medical school graduates, training doctors.
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We are not intruders in the field of science and stockbreeding.
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For that reason, unfortunately, we know that some technicians, including Doctor Willis, accuse me of being director of stockbreeding in Cuba.
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First an inspection was made of the agricultural areas and the work of reclamation, the building of the dam, the laboratories and plant-breeding establishments in Raisko, the stockbreeding centers and the tree nurseries.
Commandant of Auschwitz Hoess, Rudolf 1951
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All kinds of stockbreeding was to be pursued there.
Commandant of Auschwitz Hoess, Rudolf 1951
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