piggery
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Such entrepreneurship—or piggery, depending on whether you are profiting from or paying for the latest wrinkle—is on display among streaming services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Guo says she came to local politics from the pig-farming business, having managed her family's commercial piggery for several years.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025
“Where you have got a piggery, it’s quite possible that you would have one of these birds feeding on a nearby wetland and mosquitoes moving between them.”
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023
Asilo and his family have survived for decades off the proceeds from his vegetable farm, piggery, coconut grove and on-and-off work as caretaker of a nearby gravel and sand quarry.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
There were stables, cowsheds, a piggery, a chicken house, and two large barns with haylofts.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
Commercial piggeries, Thorburn knew, dotted the region the hospital serves.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023
Staffs at piggeries got priority: All but two of 26 employees at the Grong Grong farm rolled up their sleeves 11 days after the farm was diagnosed.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023
The houses on Portland Road were built in the 1850s on waste land between the downmarket Norland estate, home to the squalid piggeries and potteries, and the fancy new Ladbroke Estate, which became Notting Hill.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2012
Marin Hinkle gives a winsome performance as the sad-eyed heroine, Meena Pierotti, the managing editor for piggeries at American Cattle and Swine magazine.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2012
So she was not tired, although they walked through the sheep-houses and the piggeries, and looked in at the hens and the rabbits.
From Invisible Links by Selma Lagerlöf
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