conservancy

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river
noun the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc.

From conservant + -cy or conserve + -ancy.

The Conservancy of late seems to have constituted itself into a society for the employment of idiots. — Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog), Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
The jovial rascals insisted on my drinking my Steinbergh in large pint measures, so that I got rather more than my usual allowance; then they fastened a huge white beard upon my chin, pulled my whiskers, combed my hair, whispered soft things in my ear, climbed on my knees, and altogether kept me so well amused, that I never went out at all that evening to patrol the river banks, according to my usual habit, and was therefore entirely ignorant of all that occurred, until I was told it some time after by a member of the Rhine Conservancy Board, who had it from good authority. — River Legends; Or, Father Thames and Father Rhine, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, Baron Brabourne

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