Meaning & use
Agistment
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The practice or business of taking in and pasturing other people's livestock for a fee.
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The farmer earned extra income through agistment, grazing his neighbor's cattle on unused pasture.
The contract specified the agistment rate per horse, per week.
A note on using this word
Agistment is a term rooted in English common law, historically referring to fees charged for grazing animals in a royal forest.
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pasturinggrazing rights
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