Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cattle-buyer

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English

Syllables: cat-tle-buy-er
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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."

Inflected Forms

cattle-buyers (plural) cattlebuyer (alternative)

Questions

What does cattle-buyer mean?: One who makes a living traveling to ranches and buying cattle on behalf of meatpackers.

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