Synonyms for irrigation
ir·ri·ga·tion

Princeton's WordNet

1. irrigationnoun

   supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc

2. irrigationnoun

   (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution

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1. • Medical Care
   • Medicine
   • Provision

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1. irrigationnoun

   Synonyms:
   watering

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1. List of paraphrases for "irrigation":

   irrigated, watering, ri, perfusion, irrigate, sprinkler, lari

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1. Arif Husain:

   The political costs for lowering these subsidies will be lower (now that oil prices have dropped), this money should be freed up for rural infrastructure, public services and irrigation projects.

2. Ed Casey:

   David Phippen said David Phippen grandfather paid a premium price for hundreds of acres in the 1930s because it came with ironclad senior water rights. David Phippen said David Phippen takes those rights to the bank when David Phippen needs loans to replant almond orchards or install new irrigation lines. David Phippen fears that state officials are tampering with a system that has worked for years. In the water world, the pre-1914 rights were considered to be gold.

3. Yuriko Koike:

   Today we used some mists, various ways of misting...we also have water hoses normally used for agriculture use for irrigation. So, we are trying varieties of ways of cooling, we will use the best methods at Tokyo 2020. To test those countermeasures, I think test events are very important.

4. Gordon Conway:

   There are other countries where (increased) irrigation is possible: Burkina Faso, Senegal, and Mozambique, thousands of hectares could be irrigated with considerable potential.

5. Larry Long:

   We didn't think we were making our highest and best use of our effluent water, we were using a lot for irrigation, we thought it had more value going to the oil companies.