0 past simple and past participle of husband
1 to use something carefully so that you do not use all of it
They posited an individual relationship with land, which they treated as a commodity that, properly husbanded, would guarantee material and social progress.
Pitched battles were usually decided by heavy cavalry, but since the royal gendarmerie was largely recruited from the nobility it was a scarce resource which had to be carefully husbanded.
Why penalise a local authority, which over the years has garnered, prudently obtained value for money, husbanded its money and built up a financial reserve?
Surrounding those towns are 500 square miles of fertile agricultural land, garnered and husbanded by small and profitable farmers.
Our precious oil revenues, which should be husbanded for investment for the future, are being squandered on the voracious demands of nationalised industries.
There are many square miles of extremely efficiently husbanded farmland.
The islanders understand that they would be crazy to fish those waters out and, therefore, that the stocks must be carefully managed and husbanded.
The third principle is that everything should be done to prevent any waste of food, and all our food resources should be properly husbanded.
