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fat stock

British  

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

His royal highness's fat stock would have fetched unheard of prices, and Alderman Bannister would have been tired of slaying.

From Famous Reviews by R. Brimley Johnson

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

From The School Book of Forestry by Charles Lathrop Pack

Go to a fat stock show and look at the men around the cattle pens.

From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner

The three-year-old wethers and older oxen that used to be common in the fat stock markets are now rarely seen, excepting perhaps in the case of mountain breeds of sheep and Highland cattle.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

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