noun
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the right to graze or the business of grazing cattle
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another word for pasture
Etymology
Origin of pasturage
Example Sentences
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Here in rural Somalia, where about 50% of the people depend on animals for their livelihoods, the locusts are eating the pasturage.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 9, 2020
Its thin, rocky soil favored pasturage over wheat fields, so New Englanders raised livestock and caught codfish instead.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
He gave form to “the heavenly pasturage our minds can find in things,” is how Proust once put it.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2010
Since most ranch owners add no fertilizer to their soil and provide no feed for herds and flocks to supplement pasturage, the per-animal yield of meat or wool is less than it should be.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many herding peoples of Africa and Asia shift camp along regular seasonal routes to take advantage of predictable seasonal changes in pasturage.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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