1. To manage limited resources carefully so they last or are used effectively.
2. A man who is married to another person.
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Words that belong together
- husband resources
- husband one's strength
- husband supplies
On the page
The climbers husbanded their remaining water through the last day of the ascent.
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Opposite meanings
Word forms
- Base
- husband
- Past tense
- husbanded
- Past participle
- husbanded
- Present participle
- husbanding
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- husband
- Present continuous
- am/is/are husbanding
- Present perfect
- have/has husbanded
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been husbanding
- Past
- husbanded
- Past continuous
- was/were husbanding
- Past perfect
- had husbanded
- Past perfect continuous
- had been husbanding
- Future
- will husband
- Future continuous
- will be husbanding
- Future perfect
- will have husbanded
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been husbanding
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated prose. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: husband; husbands; husbanded; husbanded; husbanding. Noun singular husband; plural husbands. Commonness: moderately common (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: MW verifies conserve/manage economically verb and male-marital-partner noun; register and POS distinguished. Writing functions: precise action, characterization. Third-person singular: husbands.
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