MATERIALS HANDLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does materials handling mean? 

• MATERIALS HANDLING (noun)
  The noun MATERIALS HANDLING has 1 sense:

1. act of loading and unloading and moving goods within e.g. a factory especially using mechanical devices

  Familiarity information: MATERIALS HANDLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATERIALS HANDLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act of loading and unloading and moving goods within e.g. a factory especially using mechanical devices

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("materials handling" is a kind of...):

handling (manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something)