livestock

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See also: live stock and live-stock

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Etymology

From live +‎ stock.

Pronunciation

Noun

livestock (usually uncountable, plural livestocks)

  1. Farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.
    Coordinate term: stock animal
    The livestock were poisoned by what they grazed on.
    Livestock is bought and sold at an auction market.
    Much livestock was slaughtered due to high feed prices.
    In the West there are local areas with too many livestock.
    Women herded small livestocks such as goats and sheep.
    • 2011, Cynthia J. Moss, Harvey Croze, Phyllis C. Lee, The Amboseli Elephants: A Long-Term Perspective on a Long-Lived Mammal, page 297:
      These spearings were not related to livestock killed but to young boys trying to prove their bravery.

Usage notes

  • The phrase "head of livestock", with head as a collective noun, refers to an individual farm animal without specifying the species.

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