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wikipedia|Grazier (Australian agriculture)
Noun
en-noun
- A person who cares for cattle (and possibly other herd animals) whilst they graze.
- Australian One who owns and runs a usually large cattle or sheep farm.
#: Graziers on the tablelands are in dire straits because they do not have enough winter feed and will have to keep reducing stock.
Usage notes
In Britain, the term is no longer used, but has historical significance.
Quotations
1996, w:Janette Turner Hospital|Janette Turner Hospital, w:Oyster (novel)|Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 44
:They have been here, the bora rings, for over twenty thousand years, it is believed; it is only in the past hundred, a hiccup in time, that indifferent graziers and the treads of their four-wheel drives have scattered the stones and have imprinted zippered cars across their sacred clay skin.
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