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containerboard

containerboard noun: a form of paperboard especially manufactured for the production of corrugated fiberboard.

Noun

containerboard (countable and uncountable, plural containerboards)

  1. A form of paperboard especially manufactured for the production of corrugated fiberboard.
    • Zhang Yin, who saw a solution to China's thirst for containerboard by importing United States scrap paper, in her Hong Kong office.2007 January 16, David Barboza, “Blazing a Paper Trail in China”, in New York Times

Forms of containerboard

pluralcontainerboards

Origin of containerboard

From container + board.

Questions about containerboard

What does containerboard mean?
Containerboard means a form of paperboard especially manufactured for the production of corrugated fiberboard.
What part of speech is containerboard?
Containerboard is a noun.
What is the plural of containerboard?
The plural of containerboard is containerboards.

Words near containerboard in the dictionary

  1. container ships
  2. container vessel
  3. container vessels
  4. container wagon
  5. container wagons
  6. containerboard
  7. containerboards
  8. containerful
  9. containerfuls
  10. containerisation
  11. containerisations

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