slaughterhouse
noun
slaugh·ter·house
ˈslȯ-tər-ˌhau̇s 
: an establishment where animals are butchered
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After earning a PhD in animal science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Grandin became an authority on humane livestock treatment, designing systems that reduce stress for animals in slaughterhouses.
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
Instead of tossing these cuts, the slaughterhouses would offer them to poor people who lived nearby.
—Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
At Blackfeet Community College in northern Montana, a NIFA grant is helping to create a program to train workers for the Blackfeet tribe’s new slaughterhouse.
—Matt Krupnick, ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2025
The Department of Labor, across Republican and Democrat administrations, has failed to keep slaughterhouse abuses in check.
—Kenny Torrella, Vox, 31 Mar. 2025
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
Instead of tossing these cuts, the slaughterhouses would offer them to poor people who lived nearby.
—Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
At Blackfeet Community College in northern Montana, a NIFA grant is helping to create a program to train workers for the Blackfeet tribe’s new slaughterhouse.
—Matt Krupnick, ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2025
The Department of Labor, across Republican and Democrat administrations, has failed to keep slaughterhouse abuses in check.
—Kenny Torrella, Vox, 31 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for slaughterhouse
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slaughterhouse
noun
slaugh·ter·house
ˈslȯt-ər-ˌhau̇s
: an establishment where animals are butchered
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