slaughterhouse
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈslɔːtərˌhaʊs/
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matadero
- Look at them, just an endless stream of cattle in a mad race to the slaughterhouse.
- visit a slaughterhouse
- poultry slaughterhouses
No one would sit in a pig slaughterhouse and go, I'm sure glad I eat pulled pork.
- No one would sit in a pig slaughterhouse and go, I'm sure glad I eat pulled pork.
- And then we have one that's been fresh like from the slaughterhouse a week ago.
- Women are abused in these processing plants, these slaughterhouses.
- Let's cultivate meat in cultivators instead of using, you know, modern industrial farms and slaughterhouses.
- You guys, I'm planning to make like a slaughterhouse outside.
Examples
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During my years as an environmental health specialist, I had never been in a commercial slaughterhouse.
Academic text (1994) -
The facility will be built as part of a complex that will include a slaughterhouse.
Academic text (1998) -
There are five of them now, hunting through the slaughterhouse in a pack.
Fiction book (1996) -
But when it is cut in the slaughterhouse, all of the fat, bone, and other parts are used.
Fiction book (1995) -
The air was full of the smell of blood, like a slaughterhouse.
Fiction book (1994) -
I had worked the graveyard shift at the slaughterhouse and got home that morning at seven.
Fiction book (2000) -
He worked in the slaughterhouse.
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Meanwhile, the number of steers processed at the municipal slaughterhouse rose from two per day to six or seven.
Academic text (2003) -
A visit to Grantham Slaughterhouse with a lesson in carcass examination was very educational.
Academic text (1994) -
The workers at the slaughterhouse prepare the meat for distribution to local markets.
Synonyms
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8.8
A building where animals are killed for meat
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3.2
A factory that kills and packs animals to sell as meat
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4.7
A shop where animals are killed and meat is prepared and sold
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7.3
A building where food like fruit or meat is cleaned and packed to send to shops
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9.9
A business that kills and prepares old or dead animals for products like bones and hides
A building where animals are killed for meat
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Etymology
The word slaughterhouse comes from slaughter (an old word meaning 'kill', and related to the common verb slay) plus house ('building'). So a slaughterhouse is literally a 'building for killing' animals, which is why it means a place where animals are killed and prepared for meat.