noun
definition
A place where animals are slaughtered.
synonyms
definition
The scene of a massacre.
Examples of slaughterhouses in a Sentence
Immediately outside the city limits in 1905 were various large and important manufactories, including railway shops, foundries, slaughterhouses, ice factories and brick-yards.
Thus nowadays most slaughterhouses chill carcasses on a one day cycle.
At the present time there is a requirement to split bovine carcasses of animals over 6 months of age in export slaughterhouses.
In addition some slaughterhouses could apply to have permanent derogation.
The Ministry had received no indications of any problems from them, nor had MAFF staff in export approved slaughterhouses observed any.
Birds that had not already died would be slaughtered on farm, and would not enter slaughterhouses or the food chain.
The vast majority of animals reaching slaughterhouses at present will not be infected with the BSE agent.
For export-approved slaughterhouses, 71 per cent had satisfactory hygiene standards.
In licensed slaughterhouses, there is rarely a ' manager ' to oversee staff or any form of training.
Strenuous and successful steps were taken to improve standards of compliance with the Regulations in slaughterhouses.
Driven to one of the fifteen slaughterhouses licensed to kill ducks in the UK; his journey could take hours.
Most large throughput slaughterhouses already rotate their staff as a matter of course.
It can also legally contain road kill, euthanized pets and animals from the slaughterhouses that were diseased, dying or dead on arrival.