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cattlebuyer

cattlebuyer is the alternative form 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

Forms of cattlebuyer

pluralcattlebuyers

Questions about cattlebuyer

What is cattlebuyer the alternative form of?
Cattlebuyer is the alternative form of cattle-buyer.

Words near cattlebuyer in the dictionary

  1. cattleboy
  2. cattleboys
  3. cattlebreeder
  4. cattlebreeders
  5. cattlebreeding
  6. cattlebuyer
  7. cattlebuyers
  8. cattled
  9. cattled up
  10. cattledom
  11. cattlegirl

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