stockbreeding

[ stok-bree-ding ]

noun

1. the breeding breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.

Other Words From

• stockbreeder noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of stockbreeding¹

First recorded in 1935–40; stock + breeding

Example Sentences

Perhaps the clasped hands and the ecstatic look were hardly necessary, for even so interesting a subject as stockbreeding.

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He settled down to the congenial occupation of stockbreeding, on what was then considered to be a large scale.

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The preference of the earlier Spanish settlers for stockbreeding also limited the agricultural area.

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Stockbreeding was very much easier and according to their ideas required no particular exertion on their part.

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