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Answer for the clue "Big job for a cowboy ", 7 letters:
roundup

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Roundup , round up or round-up may refer to:

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An activity in which cattle are herded together in order to be inspected, counted, branded or shipped. 2 The similar police activity of gathering together suspects to a crime. 3 The summary to a news bulletin. 4 An upward curvature or convexity, as ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold a summary list; as in e.g. "a news roundup" the systematic gathering up of suspects by the police; "a mass roundup of suspects"

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also round-up , by 1869 in the cattle drive sense; from verbal phrase round up "to collect in a mass" (1610s; specifically of livestock from 1847); see round (v.) + up (adv.). Meaning "summary of news items" is recorded from 1886.

Usage examples of roundup.

Section A, Page 2 Late-Breaking News Roundup: CHICAGO--Chicago police are investigating an arson fire which completely destroyed the residence of Chicagoan columnist Mike Lunagan early this mora-ing.

They stayed until Friday for the sake of the recovering Kraynaks, and the Kicking Deers, who wanted Magic Boy to attend the roundup with the rest of the clan.

As soon as Longarm got the signal that they were in position he would order a handcar for them, and the roundup could begin.

Andrews to a moderately gloating roundup of problems to be raised when representatives of the Kaiser and the Sublime Porte finally held separate meetings with a US arbitrator, to discuss renewing the Osmanli Accord, the treaty that defined spheres of economic influence in North Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans.

NSA study undertaken by Hanyok, Allied communications intelligence would have picked up indications of this roundup from the cable lines and airwaves linking Vichy France with foreign capitals.

Later she discovered it had become the centerpiece for a roundup of the atrocities committed that night around the world and for the terrorist attacks in Uruguay, Venezuela, and Peru, in another Georgia and Azerbaijan, in South Africa and Israel and the Sudan, in Laos and the Philippines.

But she also knew that even though some of the wives, especially the younger ones, pitched in during the calving season or on a roundup when they were short of cowboys, no female on horseback was drawing regular cowhand wages.

If you want to know why, search out the history of a certain War Bonnet Roundup, wherein Pink rashly impersonated a lady broncho-fighter.

Their glances were, all the conversations stopped, the heads became and the expectation vibrated in the air like an electrical unloading, but Zack simply gave a roundup to avoid its woman and followed its way, stopping moments to speak with the assistant of Tony Newton and to comment out some intrascendentes with a pair of doubles.

He was facing little Flatty, thinking of what Murdick had said about roundups.

With the spring roundup in full swing, he was usually gone from daybreak to dusk.

After a while her silence about her own experiences began to stand out, and she learned to spot the casual-looking roundup techniques for the only-apparently-impromptu group therapy, and make herself scarce.

One spring I had to leave the East in the midst of the hunting season, to join a roundup in the cattle country of western Dakota, and it was curious to compare the totally different styles of riding of the cowboys and the cross-country men.

He noted Roundup had been in business eight years, which meant they'd started the place while Laine had been in college.

His ticket had won one of the three jackasses the roundup had gathered.