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stockyard

[stok-yahrd] / ˈstɒkˌjɑrd /
NOUN
slaughterhouse
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He moved to Peoria, found stockyard work and eventually became recreation director at a community center.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2020

Merwin examined his own mind in “Plane” and found it “infinitely divided and hopeless/like a stockyard seen from above.”

From Washington Times ● Mar. 15, 2019

When they make out their feed budgets, they count on their herds being able to forage, rather than eat in the stockyard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2015

Instead of booths the size of stockyard stalls, there were wide-open prairies of exhibition space on all three floors.

From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2015

To the intense irritation of Cornwall’s broker, they wound up having to accept rail cars filled with ethanol in some stockyard in Chicago—to make a sum of money that struck the broker as absurdly small.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis


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