Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bovine animals adapted or intended for conversion into beef; bovine animals for slaughter.
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Examples
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Fukushima prefecture accounted for only around 2.6% of Japan's beef-cattle production by revenue, at $173 million, in 2009, the latest year for which figures are available.
Japan Halts Sale of Fukushima Beef Phred Dvorak 2011
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In an effort to contain the problem, the government has asked Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate and Tochigi prefectures to halt all beef-cattle sales.
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Its sugar tonnage per acre is the highest, its mountain beef-cattle the fattest, its rainfall the most generous without ever being disastrous.
SHIN-BONES 2010
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In an effort to contain the problem, the government asked Fukushima prefecture on July 19 to halt all beef-cattle sales.
Radiation Threat Rattles Japan's Food Chain Phred Dvorak 2011
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The prevalence of a severe drought had resulted in drying up many of the streams within the enemy's lines, and, in consequence, he was obliged to shift his camps often, and send his beef-cattle and mules near his outposts for water.
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In time, they hope to be able to breed cleaner cows, which could reduce emissions from cows by 25 percent, says Stephen Moore, professor of beef-cattle genomics at Alberta.
The Cow Turns Green 2009
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Along the rural byways of Alabama and Georgia, where beef-cattle farming is a growing billion-dollar-a-year agribusiness, the drought is wreaking havoc.
For Cattle Farmers, 2008
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A severe drought in the Southeast is wreaking havoc on beef-cattle farming.
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Arrangements had to be made, next, for the issuance and cooking of rations that evening and for the driving of beef-cattle with the column.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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Arrangements had to be made, next, for the issuance and cooking of rations that evening and for the driving of beef-cattle with the column.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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