husband [ hus·band ]
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1. A married man considered in relation to his spouse.
she and her husband are both retired
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Verb
1. Use (resources) economically.
They're husbanding those funds for use in the future.
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Origin
1. Late Old English (in the senses ‘male head of a household’ and ‘manager, steward’), from Old Norse húsbóndi ‘master of a house’, from hús ‘house’ + bóndi ‘occupier and tiller of the soil’. The original sense of the verb was ‘till, cultivate’.

