Definition of slaughterhouse
: an establishment where animals are butchered
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The British Poultry Council, a trade group, has warned that some businesses are reserving their limited supplies of the gas for use in slaughterhouses, rather than for packaging, to ensure that chickens are killed in a more humane fashion.
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On June 21, police received a report that a few goats had gotten loose from Bridgewater’s Den Besten Farm, home to both a slaughterhouse and a butcher shop.
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After escaping from a nearby slaughterhouse, a Brahman steer eluded police for several hours in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
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People meet and interact in laundromats, slaughterhouses, pet stores, and places of worship.
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The last three horse slaughterhouses — two in Texas and one in Illinois — were closed in 2007.
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But must Valley Oaks' expanding feedlot, slaughterhouse and retail meat market be three miles upwind of Powell Gardens?
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The slaughterhouse, with its heavily immigrant workforce and foreign owners, used to dominate the headlines.
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This steer escaped a Detroit slaughterhouse in 1957.
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First Known Use of slaughterhouse
14th century
SLAUGHTERHOUSE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of slaughterhouse for English Language Learners
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: a building where animals are killed for their meat
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Definition of slaughterhouse for Students
plural slaughterhouses
\-ˌhau̇-zəz\
: a building where animals are killed and prepared for food
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