Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Bovine animals adapted or intended for conversion into beef; bovine animals for slaughter.

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Examples

  • 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

  • In an effort to contain the problem, the government has asked Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate and Tochigi prefectures to halt all beef-cattle sales.

    Food Scares Follow Nuclear Accident 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • A severe drought in the Southeast is wreaking havoc on beef-cattle farming.

    Today's WSJ in Photos: Jan. 10, 2008 2008

  • 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

  • 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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