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meatpacking

meatpacking noun: the slaughter and further processing of animals for meat.

Noun

meatpacking (uncountable)

  1. (US) The slaughter and further processing of animals for meat.
    • The administration’s focus on meatpacking is reflective of a larger shift in thinking about the costs of monopoly power.2022 January 15, Binyamin Appelbaum, “Building a Better Meatpacking Industry”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2022
    Synonyms:
    packing

Synonyms of meatpacking

Origin of meatpacking

From meat + packing.

Questions about meatpacking

What does meatpacking mean?
Meatpacking means the slaughter and further processing of animals for meat.
What part of speech is meatpacking?
Meatpacking is a noun.

Words near meatpacking in the dictionary

  1. meatotomes
  2. meatotomies
  3. meatotomy
  4. meatpacker
  5. meatpackers
  6. meatpacking
  7. meatpie
  8. meatpies
  9. meatpole
  10. meatpoles
  11. meatpuppet

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