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RANCHING

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Dictionary entry overview: What does ranching mean?

• RANCHING (noun)
The noun RANCHING has 1 sense:

1. farming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle)

Familiarity information: RANCHING used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• RANCHING (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Farming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("ranching" is a kind of...):

agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ranching"):

roundup (the activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold)

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