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cattle market

cattle market noun: a market where people buy and sell cows.

cattle market: a market where people buy and sell cows
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Noun

cattle market (plural cattle markets)

  1. A market where people buy and sell cows.
    • The corporation had just opened its new cattle market in Islington, and it had plans for clearances in the Fleet Valley that would make way for the new Farringdon Road, and adjacent meat market.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 27
  2. (colloquial, derogatory) A place, such as a bar or nightclub, that people visit in order to meet partners for casual sex.
    • That such forms of harassment remain prevalent within some mainstream spaces of night-life is remarkable in an era when young female consumers are increasingly important for the night-life industries and where many clubs have tried to move away from the ‘cattle market’ model (Chatterton and...2013, Phil Hubbard, Cities and Sexualities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 140
    Synonyms:
    meat market

Synonyms of cattle market

Forms of cattle market

pluralcattle markets

Questions about cattle market

What does cattle market mean?
Cattle market means a market where people buy and sell cows.
What part of speech is cattle market?
Cattle market is a noun.
What is the plural of cattle market?
The plural of cattle market is cattle markets.

Words near cattle market in the dictionary

  1. cattle grids
  2. cattle grub
  3. cattle grubs
  4. cattle guard
  5. cattle guards
  6. cattle market
  7. cattle markets
  8. cattle pad
  9. cattle pads
  10. cattle pen
  11. cattle pens

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