livestock
- noun
- /ˈlaɪvˌstɑk/
- Farmers often rely on livestock such as cows and sheep for their income.
- feed livestock
- crops and livestock
- agriculture and livestock
And I worry about your livestock because they live with jackals.
- And I worry about your livestock because they live with jackals.
- And then you can move to feed for livestock.
- What is the contribution of livestock to greenhouse gases and greenhouse gas effect, please.
- This is a dog that by many positive only base trainers, has been told to avoid things like livestock at all costs.
- There are lots of problems with livestock beef production.
Examples
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We got the livestock, the cattle, oil, wood, resources, anything.
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He said you had taken a heifer and some livestock.
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People begin to stay put, grow food, raise livestock, build a home.
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All the livestock we need are right here.
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We are at our family farm where we'll raise our livestock for our restaurants.
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The increase led to problems in feeding livestock during periods of shortage.
Academic text (2011) -
From there, clean air transcends to clean rain, clean crops, healthy livestock to clean food.
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And with our fall crops and most of the livestock gone, we didn't have enough food.
Fiction book (1990) -
And members of our own 4-H Club will have the opportunity to enter livestock and poultry in the competition.
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I mean, you can see the cultivation activities, livestock, fish, shrimp, wage earning and so on.
Synonyms
A supply of goods or materials kept for future use
An animal kept on a farm for food or work such as cows and chickens
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Etymology
The word livestock comes from putting together live 'alive' and stock 'supply' or 'goods', so it means the 'supply' of living animals on a farm. That's why livestock means animals like cattle, sheep, and pigs that farmers keep for use or profit.