live weight

live weight

English

Noun

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.

Translations

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)

See also

• carcass weight
• dressed weight