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piggery

[pig-uh-ree] / ˈpɪg ə ri /
NOUN
pigpen
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Such entrepreneurship—or piggery, depending on whether you are profiting from or paying for the latest wrinkle—is on display among streaming services.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Guo says she came to local politics from the pig-farming business, having managed her family's commercial piggery for several years.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025

On 25 February, the government officially diagnosed the Grong Grong piggery with JEV.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023

Asilo and his family have survived for decades off the proceeds from his vegetable farm, piggery, coconut grove and on-and-off work as caretaker of a nearby gravel and sand quarry.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

There were stables, cowsheds, a piggery, a chicken house, and two large barns with haylofts.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

Commercial piggeries, Thorburn knew, dotted the region the hospital serves.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023

Webb and colleagues later analyzed the landscape around dozens of domestic piggeries and found a strong association between transient wetland expansion and piggery infection—a link at least partly explained by the proliferation of mosquitoes.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023

The houses on Portland Road were built in the 1850s on waste land between the downmarket Norland estate, home to the squalid piggeries and potteries, and the fancy new Ladbroke Estate, which became Notting Hill.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2012

Marin Hinkle gives a winsome performance as the sad-eyed heroine, Meena Pierotti, the managing editor for piggeries at American Cattle and Swine magazine.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2012

Mr. W. could discover none of "the snug cottages, with adjoining piggeries, cowsteads, gardens and orchards," which Mr. B. had introduced into his canvass.

From The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks


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