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cattle-buyers

cattle-buyers is the plural of cattle-buyer.

Meaning of cattle-buyer

Noun

cattle-buyer (plural cattle-buyers)

  1. One who makes a living traveling to ranches and buying cattle on behalf of meatpackers.
    • It was not Johnny's fees but the drummers passing through with their lines of dry goods and notions, it was the occasional cattle-buyer who stopped for the night and took a meal—it was they who paid the bills.2009, Annie Proulx, Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog

Questions about cattle-buyers

What is cattle-buyers the plural of?
Cattle-buyers is the plural of cattle-buyer.

Words near cattle-buyers in the dictionary

  1. cattle trucks
  2. cattle up
  3. cattle wagon
  4. cattle wagons
  5. cattle-buyer
  6. cattle-buyers
  7. cattle-cake
  8. cattle-cakes
  9. cattle-drive
  10. cattle-drives
  11. cattle-guard

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