husbanding

verb
  1. 1

    To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.

    โ€œFor my means, I'll husband them so well, / They shall go far. โ€” Shakespeare.โ€

  2. 2

    To conserve.

  3. 3

    To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.

  4. 4

    To provide with a husband.

  5. 5

    To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.

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