Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who con-serves, or keeps from loss, decay, or injury; one who lays up for preservation.
- noun A preparer of conserves or sweetmeats.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who conserves.
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- noun One who
conserves .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As the life-giver and race-conserver, I should have imagined her a Lady Bountiful, tripping regularly into that ghastly steel-walled hospital room of the midship-house and dispensing gruel, sunshine, and even tracts.
CHAPTER XVII 2010
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We need a systemic transformation because a consumer society cannot evolve into a conserver society without structural change.
Jagdish Gandhi: Changing Directions Toward A Sustainable Future Jagdish Gandhi 2011
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Even though she has sung false music to me, and kept my feet solid on the ground, and drawn my star-roving eyes ever back to gaze upon her, she, the conserver of life, the earth-mother, has given me my great days and nights and fulness of years.
Chapter 21 2010
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We need a systemic transformation because a consumer society cannot evolve into a conserver society without structural change.
Jagdish Gandhi: Changing Directions Toward A Sustainable Future Jagdish Gandhi 2011
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We need a systemic transformation because a consumer society cannot evolve into a conserver society without structural change.
Jagdish Gandhi: Changing Directions Toward A Sustainable Future Jagdish Gandhi 2011
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We need a systemic transformation because a consumer society cannot evolve into a conserver society without structural change.
Jagdish Gandhi: Changing Directions Toward A Sustainable Future Jagdish Gandhi 2011
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(She is never idle, being so essentially a nest-maker and comfort-producer and race-conserver; and she has a whole pile of these handkerchiefs for her father.)
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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We need a systemic transformation because a consumer society cannot evolve into a conserver society without structural change.
Jagdish Gandhi: Changing Directions Toward A Sustainable Future Jagdish Gandhi 2011
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We need a systemic transformation because a consumer society cannot evolve into a conserver society without structural change.
Jagdish Gandhi: Changing Directions Toward A Sustainable Future Jagdish Gandhi 2011
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Ecopreneurial businesses, by how they operate and what products or services they offer, foster this conserver behavior.
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