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Definition of grazier in English: graziernoun ˈɡreɪzɪəˈɡreɪʒər 1A person who rears or fattens cattle or sheep for market. Example sentencesExamples - With their backs to the economic wall, many graziers are trying to survive by putting more livestock on the already depleted land.
- There were grazier communities like the Rabaris of Gujarat who moved long distances with their herds of cattle.
- However, most of the old rabbit fences have now fallen into disrepair as graziers and government scientists put their faith in calicivirus, the new biological control for rabbits which destroy vegetation.
- The demand for land focused hostile attention upon the graziers, who reared cattle and sheep commercially on extensive pastoral holdings.
- The ewes used at The National were loaned by a local grazier and some say they are a bit wild - made jumpy by frequent wild dog attacks in the highlands of Australia.
- It was a sheep grazier of Scottish descent, who saw the potential of camels for carrying goods on a commercial basis, particularly in the centre of Australia.
- He intended to keep things that way, repelling would-be graziers, firewood cutters and poachers with an iron hand.
- What a terrible way to go, starving to death in their millions,’ the Queensland grazier and kangaroo expert said.
- At the Brisbane boarding school he attended as a child he met many sons of Charleville graziers.
- Research conducted into the costs of shepherding on moorland showed that graziers were making a loss of £1.32 per hectare.
- Revenue in kind received by the grazier included animals and sheep products.
- Some graziers are planting paddocks with kale or turnips for winter forage in the North.
- These series of tours are even better than a pasture walk, he says, because it allows new graziers to see the growing process step by step, month by month, instead of just at the peak season.
- However, as more and more graziers opt for this market it too will become ‘saturated’ and diminished profits from over supply will eventuate.
- It may be worth receiving a lower rent and having a more reliable grazier who will keep the land in a tidy condition.
- 1.1Australian, NZ A large-scale sheep or cattle farmer.
Example sentencesExamples - Many graziers in the area do trips everyday around the station to their waterholes, their dams and ground tanks.
- The recovery bill has reached half a billion dollars, and the February and July floods affected around 1,800 dairy farmers and graziers.
- Many programs depend on permission from local rural landholders, graziers and farmers for access to and through their properties.
- Entrepreneurs, graziers, farmers and professionals formed an elite, which dominated municipal politics and was generally hostile to the labour movement.
- The forum is aimed at young farmers, graziers and people in the wider agricultural industry in the Western Division.
Origin Middle English: from grass + -ier. Rhymes Anastasia, aphasia, brazier, dysphasia, dysplasia, euthanasia, fantasia, Frazier, glazier, gymnasia, Malaysia Definition of grazier in US English: graziernounˈɡrāZHərˈɡreɪʒər A person who rears or fattens cattle or sheep for market. Example sentencesExamples - It may be worth receiving a lower rent and having a more reliable grazier who will keep the land in a tidy condition.
- It was a sheep grazier of Scottish descent, who saw the potential of camels for carrying goods on a commercial basis, particularly in the centre of Australia.
- There were grazier communities like the Rabaris of Gujarat who moved long distances with their herds of cattle.
- The demand for land focused hostile attention upon the graziers, who reared cattle and sheep commercially on extensive pastoral holdings.
- These series of tours are even better than a pasture walk, he says, because it allows new graziers to see the growing process step by step, month by month, instead of just at the peak season.
- What a terrible way to go, starving to death in their millions,’ the Queensland grazier and kangaroo expert said.
- However, as more and more graziers opt for this market it too will become ‘saturated’ and diminished profits from over supply will eventuate.
- Revenue in kind received by the grazier included animals and sheep products.
- Some graziers are planting paddocks with kale or turnips for winter forage in the North.
- However, most of the old rabbit fences have now fallen into disrepair as graziers and government scientists put their faith in calicivirus, the new biological control for rabbits which destroy vegetation.
- The ewes used at The National were loaned by a local grazier and some say they are a bit wild - made jumpy by frequent wild dog attacks in the highlands of Australia.
- With their backs to the economic wall, many graziers are trying to survive by putting more livestock on the already depleted land.
- Research conducted into the costs of shepherding on moorland showed that graziers were making a loss of £1.32 per hectare.
- At the Brisbane boarding school he attended as a child he met many sons of Charleville graziers.
- He intended to keep things that way, repelling would-be graziers, firewood cutters and poachers with an iron hand.
Origin Middle English: from grass + -ier. |