live weight

See also: live-weight

English

Noun

live weight (uncountable)

The weight of a living animal, used for example as a pricing basis in selling cattle for meat.
The alternative for live weight pricing is dressed weight or carcass weight pricing.

Translations

weight of a living animal

Finnish: elopaino (fi)
Georgian: ცოცხალი წონა (cocxali c̣ona)

German: Lebendgewicht (de) n
Turkish: canlı ağırlık (tr)

See also

carcass weight
dressed weight

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