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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
conservancy
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy
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▪ There are various power conservancy options like three levels of screen brightness, and variable times for screen and disk power-down.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conservancy

Conservancy \Con*serv"an*cy\, n. Conservation, as from injury, defilement, or irregular use.

[An act was] passed in 1866, for vesting in the Conservators of the River Thames the conservancy of the Thames and Isis.
--Mozley & W.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
conservancy

1755, "commission with jurisdiction over a port or river," from Latin conservant-, present participle stem of conservare (see conserve) + -cy. Earlier was conservacy (mid-15c., Anglo-French conservacie). Meaning "official preservation of undeveloped land" dates from 1859 (first reference is to protection of bo trees in Ceylon).

Wiktionary
conservancy

n. 1 The conservation of a resource 2 An organization dedicated to the conservation of natural resources 3 (label en British) A commission that deals with fishery and navigation 4 (label en US legal) A state in which a company is allowed to continue trading without incurring any new financial liability or disposing of any assets

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

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

Usage examples of "conservancy".

He tried to demonstrate how the conservancy district and the dam was just one more component of the economic and sociological machinery which for a long time had been driving local small farmers off their land and out of Chamisa County.

It was a closed island, forbidden to unauthorised civilians, and neither the Army nor Nature Conservancy, who leased it from the National Trust for Scotland, would give me permission to visit it.

And the dam--or paying for it, that is-- would be made possible by creating a conservancy district whose boundaries, for taxation purposes, would incorporate almost all the town's largely destitute citizens.

And when we can't pay our conservancy assessments, they'll take our land and give it to Devine.

But most farmers, completely baffled by the complexity of a conservancy district, did not know what to do.

That conservancy district and that dam will be as hard to live with as Pacheco's pig.

Those people down there, they're tense enough as it is over this dam proposition--you know, and the conservancy district.

This dam, this conservancy district has the farmers down there on phis and needles.

But if I was you I wouldn't let nobody, least of all nobody from the valley you don't trust for sure, see those plans for the conservancy district where you and Nelson Bookman got almost all that new water made possible by the dam going into that beanfield acreage you been buying up over on the west side for a golf course ever since the 1935 water compact killed all the little farmers over there.

All this is tied in with the Indian Creek Conservancy District and Dam, of course, which I won't go into right now except to state an irony in the situation.

Which is that once we create the conservancy district and build that dam, Joe Mondragon will receive water to irrigate his field.

Of course, he may understand--I don't know, and I'm certainly not going to tell him--that with development of that golf course and the subdivision, his land value and the taxes and conservancy assessments on it are going to skyrocket so high he'll never be able to raise the cash for those costs by growing beans.

Sticky, you understand, because there'd be a lot of attendant publicity, maybe hostility, which could hurt the conservancy district, the dam, and the whole Miracle Valley setup with Ladd Devine.

He's talked with a lot of other people up there, also, and he wrote a story, not implicating anybody, but in a general way running down Ladd Devine's relationship to the town, the conservancy district and the dam and so forth, the poverty of the Miracle Valley, all that.

That dam is gonna hurt all of us, and we're all gonna pay those conservancy district taxes, and there isn't anybody here who hasn't been screwed by Ladd Devine.