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con·serv·an·cy
 conservancy
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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| inflections: |
conservancies |
| definition 1: |
a conserving, esp. of natural resources.
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| definition 2: |
an organization devoted to conservation of natural resources, historical buildings, or the like.
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| related words: |
charity |
adjective + (n.)conservancy
archaeological, central, coastal, conservation, golden, marine, nonprofit, northern, private
verb + (n.)conservancy
acquire, benefit, buy, contact, estimate, found, oversee, own, preserve, protect, purchase, sponsor, survey
noun + (n.)conservancy
acre,
advertising,
affiliation,
biologist,
bird,
board,
chapter,
client,
director,
district,
easement,
ecologist,
fund,
garden,
gate,
habitat,
heritage,
island,
land,
landmark,
landowner,
livestock,
mammal,
nature,
ocean,
organization,
park,
planning,
plover,
property,
rail,
ranch,
representative,
steward,
trail,
trust,
volunteer,
water,
wetland,
wilderness,
wildlife
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| derivation: |
conservant (adj.) |
The word conservancy
contains the following part:
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
  More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence
and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, accountancy, admittance, agency, ambiance, ambience, appetency, arrogance, ascendancy, attendance, audience, belligerency, benevolence, brilliancy, buoyancy, cadence, clemency, complacency, conference, confidence, consequence, conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, countertendency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, difference, disappearance, discrepancy, disturbance, efficiency, eloquence, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, importance, incoherency, inconsistency, incumbency, indecency, independence, independency, inefficiency, infancy, insufficiency, insurgency, interagency, interdependency, itinerancy, latency, leniency, malfeasance, malignancy, mendicancy, nonbelligerency, nonemergency, occupancy, occurrence, patency, permanency, piquancy, poignancy, potency, preference, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, pungency, redundancy, regency, remembrance, residence, residency, science, solvency, stringency, subagency, sufficiency, superefficiency, superintendency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy
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