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fat stock

British  

noun

  1. livestock fattened and ready for market

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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

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 station-owners stayed at home and watched their fat stock, which soon became valuable, and was no longer boiled.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by J. Macfarlane

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

From The Pioneers by Katharine Susannah Prichard

These were then sent to the market and sold as fat stock.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honor? Bourguignon

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