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breeder

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breed·er  (brdr)
n.
1. A person who breeds animals or plants.
2. An animal kept to produce offspring.
3. Offensive Slang A heterosexual person.
4. A source or cause: social injusticea breeder of revolutions.
5. A breeder reactor.
breeder [ˈbriːdə]
n
1. (Business / Professions) a person who breeds plants or animals
2. something that reproduces, esp to excess rabbits are persistent breeders
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) an animal kept for breeding purposes
4. a source or cause a breeder of discontent
5. (Physics / Nuclear Physics) short for breeder reactor
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.breederbreeder - a person who breeds animals          
stock breeder
stock farmer, stock raiser, stockman - farmer who breed or raises livestock
Translations
breeder [ˈbriːdəʳ] N
1. (= person) → criador(a) m/f
2. (= animal) → reproductor(a) m/f
3. (Phys) (also breeder reactor) → reactor m
breeder [ˈbriːdər]
n (= person) → éleveur m
breeder reactor
breeder reactor n → surgénérateur m
breeder
n
(= person) → Züchter(in) m(f)
(Phys: also breeder reactor) → Brutreaktor m, → Brüter m
breeder [ˈbriːdəʳ] n
a. (person) → allevatore/trice
b. (Phys) (also breeder reactor) → reattore m autofertilizzante
breeder [ˈbriːdəʳ] n
a. (person) → allevatore/trice
b. (Phys) (also breeder reactor) → reattore m autofertilizzante


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The life of her governess, as she calls her, who had run through, it seems, in a few years, all the eminent degrees of a gentlewoman, a whore, and a bawd; a midwife and a midwife-keeper, as they are called; a pawnbroker, a childtaker, a receiver of thieves, and of thieves' purchase, that is to say, of stolen goods; and in a word, herself a thief, a breeder up of thieves and the like, and yet at last a penitent.
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He hoped to find some new method of making a living and aspired to become a professional breeder of ferrets.
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He would never know how sure a breeder was his new bull--the son of that fine creature he had imported; two cows he had spotted as not paying their board could go on for months eating good alfalfa and bran before a new herdsman might become convinced of their unreadiness to turn the expensive feed into white gold; he had not written down the dates when the sows were to farrow, and they might have litters somewhere around the strawstack and crush half the little pigs.
Dust by Haldeman, Julius Mr. and Mrs. View in context
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