noun
butcher; slaughterhouse worker
Refers to a person whose job is slaughtering animals. The term can carry a sensitive or blunt nuance; in modern contexts, more euphemistic terms like 食肉処理業者 may be preferred.
彼は屠殺人として食肉処理場で働いている。
He works as a butcher at a slaughterhouse.
Compound of 屠殺 (tosatsu, 'slaughter') and 人 (nin, 'person'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the spelling is conventionally associated with the meaning.