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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)
Familiarity information: RANCHING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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