sex in
C1 formal separable transitive
In simple words
In animal farming, to try to breed more males or more females on purpose.
Literal meaning: To bring a particular sex into a population through controlled breeding.
Meanings
1 C1 formal
(Specialist/animal husbandry) To breed animals selectively in order to produce a desired proportion of males or females.
"The farm had been working to sex in more females to increase milk production over the next generation."
Grammar: separable
Usage notes
Highly specialised term used in livestock and poultry breeding contexts. Extremely rare in general usage. Most ESL learners are very unlikely to encounter this outside of specialist agricultural literature.
Commonly used with
livestock flock herd offspring ratio breeding
Forms
Base
sex in
I/you/we/they
3rd person
sexes in
he/she/it
Past simple
sexed in
yesterday
Past participle
sexed in
have + pp
-ing form
sexing in
continuous
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