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verb ˈeɪdʒɪstˈeɪdʒɪst [with object]Take in and feed (livestock) for payment. 代人牧放（牲畜）以收取报酬 the dairy farmer might wish to agist lambs after the cows are housed for the winter Example sentencesExamples - My parents have often hired earth-working vehicles, installing three further dams since arriving here in an effort to drought-proof the house's garden, and to allow them to agist neighbours' animals during droughts.
- However by the start of the 1850s the Government Farm was used extensively by the government of the day to grow fodder, particularly hay, agisting of government horses used by the police in the gold escorts and the Survey Department.
- Thankfully, Molly and Jolly sheep, normally passengers in the trailer behind the bus, were agisting in Lismore at the time.
- One of the brothers had left to attempt to find land to agist their stock.
- Now, as good seasons arrive, he buys cattle and agists them, then as the El Nino weather cycle ‘starts to swing and the door closes’, sells them off at a great profit, and does something else while the drought lasts.
- Market forces would soon sort out the cattlemen who are agitating to continue agisting their livestock in alpine national parks.
- Well I agist my horses which means that I pay someone else to feed them in the morning and at night and take their rugs on and off, but I do everything else.
Derivativesnoun He was about 2 days old when our agisters noted that he hadn't urinated at all, and that he was straining. Example sentencesExamples - The agister lien provides a legal remedy for any agister who is not paid by the owner of an animal.
- Each year GV has a type of Fair Day for agisters, family, friends, neighbours & local businesses.
- The agisters are also responsible for dealing with any animals which are killed in road accidents.
- An agister is considered one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.
noun The debate about alpine grazing is not about horses or horsemen, it is about a small number of privileged families who pay the equivalent of about one week of normal agistment fees for five months cattle agistment in an alpine national park. Example sentencesExamples - ‘We will continue to offer clients a full spectrum of bloodstock services including agistment and sale preparation,’ said Lakewood Principal Peter Liston.
- Along the coast and Tablelands country, huge numbers of southern cattle are being sent away north on agistment, as there's no feed and little prospect of any until spring.
- Of course the drought is also incredibly draining financially: feed for stock, drovers, agistment, fodder and pumping water for the stock that has remained on the property.
- Just as city companies often lease their premises, Chris decided to look for long and short-term land leasing and agistment deals - virtually renting pasture for his sheep - instead of owning additional land.
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense 'use or allow the use of land for pasture'): from Old French agister, from a- (from Latin ad 'to, at') + gister, from giste 'lodging'. verbˈājistˈeɪdʒɪst [with object]Take in and feed (livestock) for payment. 代人牧放（牲畜）以收取报酬 the dairy farmer might wish to agist lambs after the cows are housed for the winter Example sentencesExamples - Now, as good seasons arrive, he buys cattle and agists them, then as the El Nino weather cycle ‘starts to swing and the door closes’, sells them off at a great profit, and does something else while the drought lasts.
- My parents have often hired earth-working vehicles, installing three further dams since arriving here in an effort to drought-proof the house's garden, and to allow them to agist neighbours' animals during droughts.
- Market forces would soon sort out the cattlemen who are agitating to continue agisting their livestock in alpine national parks.
- One of the brothers had left to attempt to find land to agist their stock.
- Well I agist my horses which means that I pay someone else to feed them in the morning and at night and take their rugs on and off, but I do everything else.
- However by the start of the 1850s the Government Farm was used extensively by the government of the day to grow fodder, particularly hay, agisting of government horses used by the police in the gold escorts and the Survey Department.
- Thankfully, Molly and Jolly sheep, normally passengers in the trailer behind the bus, were agisting in Lismore at the time.
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense ‘use or allow the use of land for pasture’): from Old French agister, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + gister, from giste ‘lodging’. |