cattle truck
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcattleandtruck
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cattle
noun[plural]
uk/ˈkæt.əl/us/ˈkæt̬.əl/
a group of animals that includes cows, buffalo, and bison, that are often kept for their milk ...
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truck
noun
uk/trʌk/us/trʌk/
a large road vehicle that is used for transporting large amounts ...
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(Definition ofcattleandtruckfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Our present choice is the choice between thecattletruckand the stampede.
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It would be lovely to have frequent trains, especially when passengers have to stand like sardines in acattletruck.
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He did not say that some lines are used so effectively that people travel incattletruckconditions.
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The railway may well be acattletruckline.
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It is more like acattletruckthan a human train.
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Only then does he say that commuters are travelling incattletruckconditions.
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He now has his own motor car, and he carries his own cattle into market miles and miles away in his own lorry andcattletruck—and who can blame him?
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Familiar stories of overcrowding,cattletruckconditions, and the bunching of buses—perhaps the worst problems of all afflicting the buses—provide individual examples of hardship and worse.
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The women are given priority in a carriage at the front while he has to scramble into acattletruckat the rear.
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That is only natural when one compares them with the old cattle trucks that are used for the rest of the time.
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Does he know what movements of cattle trucks there may have been at the farm involved?
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My commuters know their trains, not affectionately, as the "sardine specials"and the"cattle trucks".
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Those ordered to be deported were packed together in cattle trucks, with a little straw on the floor and so sent off, sixty in each.
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They were brought in cattle trucks on the railway, the load being between 30 and 40 per truck.
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We travelled in cattle trucks; food was very short and water was not available.
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He might have to take cattle to another farm which is more than two hours' journey away and cattle trucks go slowly.
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