livestock

CEFRC1

/ˈlaɪvstɒk/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Farm animals kept for food, materials, or work.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.

Examples

  • The animals living on a farm are the livestock.

  • We have ten head of livestock.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
2
Parts of speech
1
Citations
1

Deep Dive

More examples

In context

  • Livestock is bought and sold at an auction market.

  • Much livestock was slaughtered due to high feed prices.

  • The livestock were poisoned by what they grazed on.

Antonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The farmer raised blank such as cows and pigs for meat and milk.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From live + stock.