Collocations for "cattle"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "cattle" in context.
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cattle
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [dairy, farm, ranch] cattle
- [cows, oxen] and other cattle
- [a herd, herds] of cattle
- drive cattle from [this pasture, these hills] to [that valley, that region]
- raise cattle on the [farm, ranch]
- the cattle on the [farm]
- [has, owns] [500] (head of) cattle
- [herd, round up, feed, lead, milk] the cattle
- [meat, cheese, butter, milk] from cattle
- [meat] [yield, production] from cattle
- The cattle are raised for [meat, milk].
- The cattle were led to the [enclosure, slaughterhouse].
- slaughter the cattle
- were [treated, led] like cattle
- felt like cattle being led (to the slaughterhouse)
- a cattle [enclosure, pen, ranch, farm, herd]
- a cattle [grid, prod]
- the cattle [market, sector, industry]
- a live cattle auction
- [take part, bid] in a cattle auction
- [runs, owns, works on] a cattle farm
'cattle' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
barn
- brand
- breeding
- clover
- cowboy
- dairy
- drive
- drove
- enclosure
- farm
- farmer
- farming
- feed
- feeding
- fence
- free
- graze
- hay
- herd
- hoof
- low
- market
- meadow
- offspring
- path
- pen
- pig
- raise
- ranch
- range
- rear
- rope
- round
- sheep
- slaughter
- straw
- swine