CONSERVANCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conservancy mean? 

• CONSERVANCY (noun)
  The noun CONSERVANCY has 2 senses:

1. a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river

2. the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc.

  Familiarity information: CONSERVANCY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSERVANCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("conservancy" is a kind of...):

commission; committee (a special group delegated to consider some matter)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("conservancy" is a kind of...):

conservation (the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources)

 Context examples 

Little has changed in the land distribution of the devastation: the largest portion of the total area deforested over the 12-month period consisted of private properties (35.4%), followed by land reform settlements (28.6%), unassigned public land (24%) and conservancy units (12%).

(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)