cattle-buyer
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See also: cattlebuyer
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]cattle-buyer (plural cattle-buyers)
- One who makes a living traveling to ranches and buying cattle on behalf of meatpackers.
- 2009, Annie Proulx, Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog:
- 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.