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MEATPACKING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does meatpacking mean?
• MEATPACKING (noun)
The noun MEATPACKING has 1 sense:
1. wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers)
Familiarity information: MEATPACKING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
meat-packing business; meat packing; meatpacking
Hypernyms ("meatpacking" is a kind of...):
packaging (the business of packing)
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