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fat stock

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noun

  1. livestock fattened and ready for market

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In exchange for high U.S. salaries, fat stock options and a potential pathway to U.S. citizenship, foreign workers endure an application process that is lengthy and uncertain.

From Seattle Times Dec. 4, 2022

If well filled with ripe and matured grain, and perfect ears of corn, with fat stock surrounding it, it is an omen of great prosperity.

From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Miller, Gustavus Hindman

Again, there has of late years been a very considerable improvement in the pig classification at both the breeding and the fat stock shows.

From The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing by Spencer, Sanders

Rain on fired earth makes for fertility, good grain, fat stock and an abundant harvest.

From The Pioneers by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

Many of the fat stock now go directly from the range to the market.

From The School Book of Forestry by Pack, Charles Lathrop

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