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abattoir

[ab-uh-twahr, ab-uh-twahr] / ˈæb əˌtwɑr, ˌæb əˈtwɑr /
NOUN
slaughterhouse
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Abattoirs, butchers and meat processors are set to employ prisoners and ex-inmates to help plug labour shortages.

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2021

Abattoirs in Kenya will be banned from slaughtering donkeys from next month, the agriculture minister has said.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2020

Nice-Matin newspaper said on Twitter that police were searching the attacker's home in the Nice neighborhood of Abattoirs.

From Reuters • Jul. 14, 2016

Abattoirs and meat processing plants based all over Europe, from England and France to Poland and Romania.

From Newsweek • Feb. 19, 2013

The subject "Abattoirs contrasted with Slaughter-houses and Smithfield-market," is continued—a plan which we illustrated in The Mirror about five years since.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 568, September 29, 1832 by Various




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