livestock
livestock
Definition
live·stock (līv′stäk′)
noun
domestic animals kept for use on a farm and raised for sale and profit
livestock
Synonyms
livestock
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- domesticate: An understanding of the natural behavior or ethology is a requirement in the assessment of the welfare of domesticated livestock.
- slaughter: Soviet agriculture had still not yet recovered from the forced collectivisation of the early 1930s, when peasants destroyed crops and slaughtered livestock.
- tend: It is difficult to keep children from collecting wood and tending livestock in the fields and this is where the dangers lie.
- kill: But how much of the wolf's reputation for killing livestock is deserved?
- feed: As a boy, John Clarke started work at the mill by feeding the livestock going on to become master baker.
Adjective modifier
- ruminant: For ruminant livestock, access to pasture must be maximized.
- susceptible: Recommendations for event organizers Cancel all activities planned on or close to land where susceptible livestock have recently been grazing.
- infected: These questions could easily be answered by molecular genetic analysis of the virus or viruses from infected livestock in the outbreak.
- domestic: Back to top Grazing Grazing by domestic livestock can benefit heathland in a number of ways.
- arable: Arable, livestock, mixed and forestry enterprises are all judged in their own context.
- agricultural: What is also apparent is that the preference among students for animal sciences appears to be concentrating on horses rather than agricultural livestock.
Modifies a noun
- farming: Quality livestock farming in Scotland cannot survive without subsidy.
- genetics,training: Livestock sales,Top stud genetics,training and Fleece Spinning at our Mini Mill.
- sales,top: Livestock sales,Top stud genetics,training and Fleece Spinning at our Mini Mill.
- grazing: You are sure to have company from the local livestock grazing next to the roadway.
- keeper: This could, for example, include research exploring how to help livestock keepers say what they need from animal health research.
- manure: Historically, the term ' farm waste ' has been used to describe livestock manure, slurry and effluent.
Noun used with modifier
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