Cattle-buyer
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cattle-buyer is a noun meaning One who makes a living traveling to ranches and buying cattle on behalf of meatpackers.
Meaning
One who makes a living traveling to ranches and buying cattle on behalf of meatpackers.
Example Sentences
It was not Johnny's fees but the drummers passing through with their lines of dry goods and notions, it was the occasional cattle-buyer who stopped for the night and took a meal—it was they who paid the bills.
Word Forms
- cattle-buyers
- cattlebuyer
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cattlebuyer, cattleman, cattleperson, cattlewoman, cowman, cattleboy.
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