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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The business of owning and operating a dairy or a dairy farm.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The occupation or business of a dairy-farmer or dairyman: also attributively: as, a rich dairying country.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The business of conducting a dairy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The business of owning and operating a dairy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the business of a dairy

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Examples

  • On the farm spectrum I'd say that dairying is at one end as far as the commitment required.

    An Interview with Jane Hamilton. 2010

  • Like grain farming dairying is a relatively scalable enterprise, especially if the cattle are fed upon unpalatable leavings or fallow land which would otherwise be underutilized.

    Low Vitamin D Levels Put Healthy Children at Risk Steve Carper 2007

  • Thus, the large-scale employment of women in dairying, and the subsequent devaluation of their labor that occurred in the British Isles with the "rationalization" of the industry, were not processes that played out on the southern Avalon.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • As far as PDRs, there isn't a lot of pressure here, but once the pressure becomes so great, dairying is kind of out of the window and we're talking about veg crops or vinyards or something other than animal agriculture ...

    Living in Dryden: June 2004 Archives 2004

  • As far as PDRs, there isn't a lot of pressure here, but once the pressure becomes so great, dairying is kind of out of the window and we're talking about veg crops or vinyards or something other than animal agriculture ...

    Living in Dryden: Agriculture at Planning Board meeting 2004

  • Funds will be provided for programs to assist families to earn income through cottage industries such as dairying, fishing, seafood processing and vegetable marketing.

    Australia Commits $1 Million Towards Peace in Sri Lanka 1998

  • More than nine hundred local societies have been established, for the promotion of industries such as dairying and poultry farming; co-operative credit banks have been formed, based on what is known in Germany as the

    Is Ulster Right? Anonymous

  • A man might go on it out in Oregon and think it was a fir land, think it was good for nothing but timber, and find first that it was the richest kind of dairying land, and find next that it contained a gold mine or a chrome mine.

    Address by Honorable Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highway Transport Committee Council of National Defense United States. Council of National Defense. Highway Transport Committee

  • "This is further evidence that we just plain can't grow companies in this country and hang on to them ... even in dairying which is our biggest and most powerful sector," Oram said.

    National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand 2010

  • Waituna's catchment has been dramatically altered by the introduction of industrial dairying which is adding to the nutrient, fecal and sediment load coming into the wetland and lagoon.

    frogblog 2009

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