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RANCHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ranching mean? 

RANCHING (noun)
  The noun RANCHING has 1 sense:

1. farming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle)play

  Familiarity information: RANCHING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RANCHING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Farming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("ranching" is a kind of...):

agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ranching"):

roundup (the activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold)

Derivation:

ranch (manage or run a ranch)


 Context examples 


"The shift from traditional pastoralism to borehole-dependent ranching, however, has resulted in the degradation of the Kalahari," says D'Odorico.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)



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