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单词 grazier
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Definition of grazier in English:

grazier

noun 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. 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:

grazier

nounˈɡrāZHərˈɡreɪʒər
  • 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.

 
 
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