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- noun Plural form of
woolgrower .
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Examples
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I called her up and she told me that one of the woolgrowers had told her that we were going to be involved...even after I had told both him and her that we were not.
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Later this year, Australian Wool Innovation , a company owned by Australian woolgrowers, plans to start marketing "hot socks."
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In 1781, when, the price of wool being low, the Lincolnshire woolgrowers met under the chairmanship of their great landowners, and resolved on petitions praying "that British might be exported and that Irish wool might be excluded from England;" thereupon the Yorkshire manufacturers met and resolved that
Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848
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The majority of the settlers in the Bathurst country, and in the more remote interior, are woolgrowers; and as they send their produce to the market only once a year, receiving supplies for home consumption, on the return of their drays or carts from thence, the inconvenience of bad roads is not so much felt by them.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete Charles Sturt 1832
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The majority of the settlers in the Bathurst country, and in the more remote interior, are woolgrowers; and as they send their produce to the market only once a year, receiving supplies for home consumption, on the return of their drays or carts from thence, the inconvenience of bad roads is not so much felt by them.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume I Charles Sturt 1832
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The United States 'National Retail Federation (NRF) deputy vice president Erik Autor will meet with 17 organisations representing woolgrowers, researchers, geneticists, animal welfare experts, wool brokers, processors and government.
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The United States 'National Retail Federation (NRF) deputy vice president Erik Autor will meet with 17 organisations representing woolgrowers, researchers, geneticists, animal welfare experts, wool brokers, processors and government.
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The federation, along with other US trade associations, recently wrote to the Australian government urging it to intervene in the battle between woolgrowers and US-based animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) over mulesing.
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A top executive of the world's largest retail trade association is in Australia to see how soon woolgrowers can end the contentious practice of mulesing.
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A top executive of the world's largest retail trade association is in Australia to see how soon woolgrowers can end the contentious practice of mulesing.
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