conservation

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
2. (countable, uncountable) Wise use of natural resources.
3. (countable, uncountable) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
4. (countable, uncountable) Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
5. (countable, uncountable) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
6. (countable, uncountable) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)

Synonyms

preservation

maintenance

protection

storage

retention

conservancy

keep

upkeep

guarding

reservation

sustenance

keeping

environmentalism

imperishability

integrity

maintain

marshal

nourishment

patronage

preserve

preserving

reposition

reserve

retentivity

safeguard

saving

savings

security

shield

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sponsorship

storing

subsistence

support

sustentation

warden

warder

watchman

continue to have

staticize

safety

crop storage

aegis

repositing

allocate

auspices

canning

care

charge

custody

defence

Translations

conservation

conservación

conservazione

conservação

Konservierung

Erhaltung

préservation

conservació

συντήρηση

διατήρηση

koruma

preservazione

behoud

Bewahrung

garde

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌkɑnsə(ɹ)ˈveɪʃən/

Etymology

From Old French. By surface analysis, conserve + -ation.

Sentences

They are sometimes used for conservation grazing .