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liveweight

liveweight is the alternative form of live weight.

Meaning of live weight

Noun

live weight (countable and uncountable, plural live weights)

  1. The weight of a living animal before it is slaughtered for meat; used for example as a pricing basis in selling cattle for meat.
    • The alternative to live-weight pricing is dressed-weight or carcass-weight pricing.

Forms of liveweight

pluralliveweights

Questions about liveweight

What is liveweight the alternative form of?
Liveweight is the alternative form of live weight.

Words near liveweight in the dictionary

  1. livetrapped
  2. livetrapping
  3. livetraps
  4. livetweet
  5. liveware
  6. liveweight
  7. liveweights
  8. livewell
  9. livewells
  10. livewire
  11. livewires

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Adapted from Wiktionary: liveweight (page history and authors); live weight (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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