MEAT PACKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meat packer mean? 

• MEAT PACKER (noun)
  The noun MEAT PACKER has 1 sense:

1. a wholesaler in the meat-packing business

  Familiarity information: MEAT PACKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEAT PACKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wholesaler in the meat-packing business

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

meat packer; packer

Hypernyms ("meat packer" is a kind of...):

jobber; middleman; wholesaler (someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers)

Instance hyponyms:

Gustavus Franklin Swift; Swift (United States meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (1839-1903))