noun
A facility where livestock are slaughtered for meat. The term is neutral and used in agricultural, legal, and everyday contexts.
この地域には大きな屠畜場がある。
There is a large slaughterhouse in this area.
屠畜場の衛生管理は厳しく行われている。
Hygiene control at the slaughterhouse is strictly enforced.
Compound of 屠畜 (tochiku, 'slaughtering livestock') + 場 (jō, 'place'). The word is a straightforward Sino-Japanese formation.