packaway
packaway is the alternative form of pack-away.
Meaning of pack-away
Adjective
pack-away (not comparable)
- Capable of being folded up or disassembled for storage.
- The idea is for a pack-away theatre: a fully-equipped, two-hundred seater theatre building which can be dismantled and packed away, not quite into a suit-case, but into four freight-containers of the kind used for transport by road or rail — and which in this case can be used to convey our theatre.1982, Theatre Ireland - Volumes 1-5, page 78
- Available for storing items that are not in use.
- In the good old Summer time you need pack-away space and plenty of it.1903, The Unitarian Register - Volume 82, page 872
- That must be packed away between uses.
- Pack-away settings raise particular challenges in creating enabling environments.2013, Zenna Kingdon, Jan Gourd, Early Years Policy: The impact on practice
Questions about packaway
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