stockbreeding

[stok-bree-ding]

noun

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

Other Word Forms

• stockbreeder noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of stockbreeding¹

First recorded in 1935–40; stock + breeding

Example Sentences

The main activities of reserve’s 60,000 inhabitants include organic agriculture, stockbreeding and eco-tourism.

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“My mind is lit up with other things now; I’m looking into agriculture and stockbreeding,” he told the interviewer.

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Key causes of Amazon deforestation are illegal trafficking in timber and minerals, fires and the spread of agriculture and stockbreeding.

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

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