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- noun The
keeping ofgame ; theoccupation of agamekeeper .
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Examples
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Besides its great fun and a good challenge too .. come on guys this is basic gamekeeping .. anyone can do it .. let the state give monetary rewards if needed to get interest up while the thrill of it all builds in the population ..
Leave it to Beavers 2009
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Besides its great fun and a good challenge too .. come on guys this is basic gamekeeping .. anyone can do it .. let the state give monetary rewards if needed to get interest up while the thrill of it all builds in the population ..
Leave it to Beavers 2009
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Hagrid hadn't been doing his gamekeeping duties because the dragon was keeping him so busy.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Rowling, J. K. 1997
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Why he was taken on as gamekeeper no one could make out, for when he first came up to the Hall to ask the master for a job, they tell me he knew no more of gamekeeping than I do of Latin.
In Homespun 1891
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He loved the outdoors, walking with his dogs in the hills and had shown a real flair and desire to progress with his gamekeeping.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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I like to think of gamekeeping as a hub within the community, with the social aspects of the job on a par with the conservation and business elements.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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It is important to me that gamekeeping acts as a force for good and not only in terms of its conservation work.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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The death of his mother when he was just three, a troubled and unhappy childhood with a violent stepmother, a journey through Borstal, poultry farming, gamekeeping, air-frame fitting and then the RAF.
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By Jeff DeLong, USA conservation ( "Controlling predators can save the curlew", Opinion, Mar 31) will strike a chord with Britain's gamekeeping community.
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By Jeff DeLong, USA conservation ( "Controlling predators can save the curlew", Opinion, Mar 31) will strike a chord with Britain's gamekeeping community.
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