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Fray Bentos

British  
/ ˌfreɪ ˈbɛntɒs /

noun

  1. a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)

"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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Her doctorate degree considered whether effluent from the Fray Bentos mill affected the hormones of fish in the adjacent Uruguay River.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2023

UPM runs another pulp mill, Fray Bentos, in south-west Uruguay.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2023

In Fray Bentos, the pants would have cost $48.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2023

Abelardo Alzaibar owns a pharmacy in Fray Bentos and said that even with the incentives, the price disparity is creating "tremendous" issues for the survival of local businesses.

From Reuters • Jul. 13, 2023

Liebig's famous establishments at Fray Bentos, two hundred miles north of Montevideo, employs six hundred men, and kills one thousand bullocks a day.

From Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America by Ray, G. Whitfield

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