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RANCHING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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)

Derivation:

ranch (manage or run a ranch)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb ranch

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