abattoir
noun
ab·at·toir
ˈa-bə-ˌtwär 
-ˌtwȯr,
-ˌtȯr
plural abattoirs
: a place where animals are butchered : slaughterhouse
Mr. Foley worked previously at a pig abattoir and reckoned he was beyond such queasiness.—
Tony Horwitz
Tony HorwitzBulls are precious, a good one fetching $400 or more at the abattoir …—Peter Meredith
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Parts of pig brains were revitalised after being retrieved from an abattoir.
—Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 4 Oct. 2024
Trump is still sitting on a paper holding worth more than $2 billion, but his outside investors, many of whom are small investors who bought at or near the top, have been been taken to the abattoir.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
Today’s slaughter seems even more out of place in the sprawling cities of a predominantly urban country, where the clean concrete floors of car washes turned impromptu abattoirs set the bloodshed in even starker relief.
—Nick Danforth, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2014
Mark Harvey-Sutton, CEO of the Australian Livestock Exporters’ Council, said any animals taken off the boat would be placed into quarantine before being re-exported or killed in an Australian abattoir.
—Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
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Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 4 Oct. 2024
Trump is still sitting on a paper holding worth more than $2 billion, but his outside investors, many of whom are small investors who bought at or near the top, have been been taken to the abattoir.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
Today’s slaughter seems even more out of place in the sprawling cities of a predominantly urban country, where the clean concrete floors of car washes turned impromptu abattoirs set the bloodshed in even starker relief.
—Nick Danforth, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2014
Mark Harvey-Sutton, CEO of the Australian Livestock Exporters’ Council, said any animals taken off the boat would be placed into quarantine before being re-exported or killed in an Australian abattoir.
—Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
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abattoir
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ab·at·toir
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