any animals kept for use or profit
"The farmer drove his livestock to the market hoping to sell them at a good price."
Farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.
"The farmer gathered his livestock, including cows and sheep, to move them to the summer pasture."
In plain English: Livestock are farm animals that people raise for food, wool, and other useful products.
"The farmer drove his livestock to the pasture for grazing."
Usage: Livestock refers collectively to farm animals raised for food, fiber, or labor rather than individual creatures like cattle or sheep. Use this term when discussing the industry as a whole instead of specifying a single type of animal.
The word livestock is a compound formed from the words live and stock. It originally referred to animals kept on a farm as property rather than just living creatures generally.