Usually means: Preservation and protection of resources.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. conservation: Merriam-Webster
  2. conservation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. conservation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. conservation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. conservation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Conservation, conservation: Wordnik
  7. conservation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. conservation: Wiktionary
  9. conservation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. conservation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. conservation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. conservation: Dictionary.com
  13. conservation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Conservation (botany), Conservation (cultural heritage), Conservation (disambiguation), Conservation (ethic), Conservation (genetics), Conservation (magazine), Conservation (psychology), Conservation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Conservation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. conservation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. conservation: Rhymezone
  18. Conservation, conservation(f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. conservation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. conservation: FreeDictionary.org
  21. conservation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. conservation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. conservation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. conservation: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. conservation: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Conservation (physics), conservation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Conservation: Africa Glossary

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Archeological Collections Glossary (No longer online)
  4. conservation: Evolution Glossary
  5. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Conservation: Underwater Archaeology Glossary
  7. Biodiversity (No longer online)
  8. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  7. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)
  9. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)

(Note: See conservational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
noun:  Wise use of natural resources.
noun:  (biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
noun:  (biology) Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
noun:  (culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
noun:  (physics) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)

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