butchery
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4.7
- noun
- /ˈbʊtʃəri/
- UK
:
carnicería
- They brought up stone and bone tools and ornaments, and found evidence of grain storage, as well as bones of fish and domestic animals bearing signs of butchery.
- animal butchery
- art of butchery
- butchery site
Examples
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And the sink is blocked and the butchery's full of flies.
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I do think if I worked at the Chop Shop Butchery, going Atkins would be a whole lot easier.
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NARRATOR 2: They enter the kitchen with its butchery room.
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Jet went to town with her Whole Beast Butchery book, though, and came up with a great plan for each of us.
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We don't need to stick on it, but I would like to work in a butchery at some point.
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Islam invented the method of halal for butchery of animals.
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How about government regulations on toxic waste dumping, or employee safety at construction sites, or clean food standards at a butchery?
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There is a really cool local butchery (that I really should call right now to reserve—OK, done!) for my duck and a small turkey.
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The local butchery offers a wide variety of fresh meats, including beef, pork, and chicken.
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After the animal was slaughtered, it was taken to the butchery for processing and packaging.
Synonyms
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3.2
A place where animals are killed and prepared to be eaten
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1.3
A shop that sells fresh meat and poultry, sometimes fish
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1.1
A shop that sells meat such as beef and chicken
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8.8
A building where animals are killed for meat
A building where animals are killed for meat
An industry that processes and packs meat for shops
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Etymology
Butchery comes from the word butcher, which named a person who killed animals and prepared their meat, so butchery originally meant 'a place where meat is cut and sold'.