feedlot
Americannoun
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a plot of ground, often near a stockyard, where livestock are gathered to be fattened for market.
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a commercial establishment that operates a feedlot.
noun
Etymology
Origin of feedlot
Example Sentences
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Experts speculated that dry-lot cows can’t sweat as freely as free-range cows, and that weather and feedlot conditions contributed to deadly heat exhaustion.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026
Brad Foote, a feedlot operator in western Nebraska with 62,000 cattle, considers brand rules “a tax with no benefit.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
Producers raise calves on pastures until they are old enough to be sold at auction to a feedlot.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
Kebreab said that daily feeding of pasture-based cattle is more difficult than feedlot or dairy cows because they often graze far from ranches for long periods.
From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2024
These days Joe got a lot of his meat precut and packaged from the feedlot up in La Jara, Colorado.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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