"cattle-buyer" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cattle-buyers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cattle-buyer (plural cattle-buyers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Annie Proulx, Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog",
          "text": "It was not Johnny's fees but the drummers passing through with their lines of dry goods and notions, it was the occasional cattle-buyer who stopped for the night and took a meal—it was they who paid the bills.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who makes a living traveling to ranches and buying cattle on behalf of meatpackers."
      ],
      "id": "en-cattle-buyer-en-noun-BG~6k76-",
      "links": [
        [
          "ranch",
          "ranch"
        ],
        [
          "buy",
          "buy"
        ],
        [
          "cattle",
          "cattle"
        ],
        [
          "meatpacker",
          "meatpacker"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cattlebuyer"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cattle-buyer"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cattle-buyers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cattle-buyer (plural cattle-buyers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Annie Proulx, Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog",
          "text": "It was not Johnny's fees but the drummers passing through with their lines of dry goods and notions, it was the occasional cattle-buyer who stopped for the night and took a meal—it was they who paid the bills.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who makes a living traveling to ranches and buying cattle on behalf of meatpackers."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ranch",
          "ranch"
        ],
        [
          "buy",
          "buy"
        ],
        [
          "cattle",
          "cattle"
        ],
        [
          "meatpacker",
          "meatpacker"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "cattlebuyer"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cattle-buyer"
}