live weight

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Noun[edit]

live weight (countable and uncountable, plural live weights)

The weight of a living animal before it is slaughtered for meat; used for example as a pricing basis in selling cattle for meat.
The alternative to live-weight pricing is dressed-weight or carcass-weight pricing.

Translations[edit]

weight of a living animal

Finnish: elopaino (fi)
Georgian: ცოცხალი წონა (cocxali c̣ona)
German: Lebendgewicht (de) n
Macedonian: жива́ мера f (živá mera), жи́ва ме́ра f (žíva méra)
Turkish: canlı ağırlık (tr)

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