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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

He was the principal originator and promoter of the great Agricultural Hall, in London, for the exhibition of the fat stock for the Smithfield Show. 

From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Burritt, Elihu

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 Bourguignon, Honor?

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 Macfarlane, J.

This book covers fully the principles of breeding and feeding for both fat stock and dairying type.

From The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know by Hunt, Thomas Forsyth

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