Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A plot of ground on which livestock are fattened for market.
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- noun US Land on which
cattle arefattened formarket
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a building where livestock are fattened for market
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Examples
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In essence, this exemption allows organic cows to be confined and fed grain for four months prior to slaughter, also known as feedlot finishing.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Ari LeVaux 2010
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In essence, this exemption allows organic cows to be confined and fed grain for four months prior to slaughter, also known as feedlot finishing.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Ari LeVaux 2010
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In essence, this exemption allows organic cows to be confined and fed grain for four months prior to slaughter, also known as feedlot finishing.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Ari LeVaux 2010
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In essence, this exemption allows organic cows to be confined and fed grain for four months prior to slaughter, also known as feedlot finishing.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Ari LeVaux 2010
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In practice, this exemption allows organic beef cattle to be confined and fed grain for four months prior to slaughter, a practice known as feedlot finishing.
Cleveland Scene Ari LeVaux 2010
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In essence, this exemption allows organic cows to be confined and fed grain for four months prior to slaughter, also known as feedlot finishing.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Ari LeVaux 2010
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In essence, this exemption allows organic cows to be confined and fed grain for four months prior to slaughter, also known as feedlot finishing.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Ari LeVaux 2010
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In essence, this exemption allows organic cows to be confined and fed grain for four months prior to slaughter, also known as feedlot finishing.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Ari LeVaux 2010
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In practice, this exemption allows organic beef cattle to be confined and fed grain for four months prior to slaughter, a practice known as feedlot finishing.
Cleveland Scene Ari LeVaux 2010
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In modern "feedlot" beekeeping, bees are unloaded in yards where they await their next pollination job.
Gothamist 2008
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