live weight

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live weight (countable and uncountable, plural live weights)

  1. 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.

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