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stockyard

noun as in slaughterhouse

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Because they often are sold online at auction houses or to stockyards, it can be almost impossible to determine where the beef eventually ends up.

Old stockyards and abandoned red-brick storehouses are gradually filling with hipster bars and coffee shops, galleries and artisanal-everything shops.

The stockyards are gone, but the restaurant stayed.

Farm Sanctuary began not as a home for rescued animals but with a group of young activists working to expose animal cruelty at farms, stockyards and slaughterhouses.

The old farming dynasties are selling up their land to multinational conglomerates, and the stockyard jobs are gone.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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