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Definition of Conservancy
1. Noun. A commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river.
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
2. Noun. The official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc..
Definition of Conservancy
1. n. Conservation, as from injury, defilement, or irregular use.
Definition of Conservancy
1. Noun. The conservation of a resource ¹
2. Noun. An organization dedicated to the conservation of natural resources ¹
3. Noun. (British) A commission that deals with fishery and navigation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Conservancy
1. [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conservancy
Literary usage of Conservancy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Institution of Municipal Engineers, London, Incorporated Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors (1881)
"The Bill is based on the recommendations of a Select Committee of the House of
Lords in the Session of 1877, and provides that any sanitary or conservancy ..."
2. Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919: A Collection by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1921)
"If after the above conservancy work has been in progress for some lime, it shall
appear that the original loan is insufficient to provide for its completion ..."
3. Proceedings (1881)
"The Bill is based on the recommendations of a Select Committee of the House of
Lords in the Session of 1877, and provides that any sanitary or conservancy ..."
4. Handbook of Market Creation for Biodiversity: Issues in Implementation edited by Organización de Cooperación y Desarrollo Económico, Organisation for Economic Co-ope (2004)
"Private property rights and the African conservancy movement The Southern ...
The joint management actions taken by the Khomas Hochland conservancy thus far ..."
5. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1883)
"Nevertheless, the conservancy of most of the " great " rivers cost the Crown much
anxious care. It was constantly enacted by statute, under Plantagenet ..."
6. Local Government and Taxation in the United Kingdom: A Series of Essays Pub by John Webb Probyn (1882)
"Rivers conservancy under new Corpora- The Lea conservancy Board was constituted
by a private Act of Parliament in the year 1868. ..."
7. Memoirs of the Miami Valley by John Calvin Hover (1919)
"The conservancy Law of Ohio.* There are two reasons why it has seemed advisable,
in the opinion of the editors of this book, to give an abbreviated form of ..."
8. Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919: A Collection by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1921)
"Three months after signature of the present agreement China will herself select
an engineer experienced in matters of river conservancy, and if a majority ..."
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