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US
/kənˈsɝvənsi/
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[ UK /kənsˈɜːvənsi/ ]
[ UK /kənsˈɜːvənsi/ ]
NOUN
- the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc.
- a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river
How To Use conservancy In A Sentence
- There are various power conservancy options like three levels of screen brightness, and variable times for screen and disk power-down.
- Noted for its conservancy of wildflowers, this museum southwest of Philadelphia features the art of the Wyeth family.
- Also, the Annapolis Conservancy Board will monitor the easements each year to ensure that their terms are being observed.
- Bonny Doon produces fine cypress, rather than fine wine, because The Nature Conservancy bought the property in 1989 and deeded it to the state as an ecological reserve.
- It must, one would think, have been the badness of the ` ` copy '' that induced the compositors to turn ` ` the nature and theory of the Greek verb '' into _the native theology of the Greek verb_; ` ` the conser < p 124 > vation of energy '' into the _conversation of energy_; and the ` ` Forest Conservancy Literary Blunders
- The first alludes to the immemorial right of the mayor and commonalty to the conservancy of the Thames, and to the metage of all coals, grain, salt, fruit, vegetables, and other merchandise sold by measure, delivered at the port of London. The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges
- In Britain, surveys carried out by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Game Conservancy Trust and Forest Enterprise, showed that the UK black grouse population fell from about 25,000 males in the early 1990s to an estimated 6,510 males in 1995 / 6. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
- Just a few of the benefits to your program are natural beauty, recreational opportunity, environmental education, conservancy, wildlife protection, and resource utilization.
- A natural system of conservancy was in vogue, almost every hill top is dedicated to some local deity and the trees on or about the spot are regarded with great respect so that nobody dare touch them.
- The Department of Conservation's Wanganui conservancy has reported to me that it has assisted people affected by the floods with equipment and labour.
