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dairying

[ dair-ee-ing ]

noun

  1. the business of a dairy.


dairying

/ ˈdɛərɪɪŋ /

noun

  1. the business of producing, processing, and selling dairy products


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dairying1

First recorded in 1640–50; dairy + -ing 1

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Example Sentences

At the beginning of that time span, migrating farmers introduced dairying to southeastern Europe’s Balkan Peninsula, where residents embraced regular milk drinking, the investigators say.

Rome is the centre of a large dairying interest, the cheese factory system having originated here.

He now makes a specialty of dairying and has an excellent herd of Holstein cattle.

The chief occupations of the people in the surrounding country are dairying, fruit-raising, and wine-making.

Here he owns two hundred acres of alfalfa land and he is also engaged quite extensively in dairying and in fruit raising.

Then he is always busy organising various sorts of industries in the country—dairying, lumbering and that sort of thing.

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