Definition
slaughterers
noun
- people who kill animals for food, especially in a slaughterhouse
- people who kill many others brutally or violently
Usage: often used to describe those who commit mass killings
Examples
- The slaughterers worked efficiently to process the cattle for market.
- Professional slaughterers must follow strict health and safety regulations.
- The factory employed dozens of slaughterers during peak season.
- History remembers the dictators as slaughterers of innocent people.
- The war crimes tribunal prosecuted the slaughterers responsible for the massacre.
- Local slaughterers supplied meat to restaurants throughout the region.