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packing room

packing room noun: a room that a business uses to pack items for subsequent storage or shipping.

Noun

packing room (plural packing rooms)

  1. A room that a business uses to pack items for subsequent storage or shipping.
    • If the probable highest dew point can be estimated, the corresponding relative humidity in the packing room at any desired temperature may be determined from a humidity chart.1944, Vegetable and Fruit Dehydration: A Manual for Plant Operators
    • In the last few days of the rush, Ida finally dressed and walked up to the packing room to contribute her share of the work.2012, Kathy Leonard Czepiel, A Violet Season: A Novel
  2. A room in a large house that is used for storing unused items; storage room.
    • Three light, airy bedrooms, packing room, bath and closets on third floor. Brick fireplace in living room and master's room; big, broad, livable veranda, newly screened, grounds among most artistic and best cared for in New York's most beautiful siiburb, thoughtfully planted and carefully...1914, Country Life - Volume 25, page 158
    • Above the dining room were two bedrooms; above the pantry, a packing room; and above the kitchen and laundry, two servants' rooms.1963, South of Yesterday: The Memoirs of Francis McKelden Smith, page 37

Examples of packing room in a sentence

  • We take a look in at the packing room, where every inch of wall space is occupied with stacks of photographs, pigeon-holed and alphabetically docketed.2012, Margaret Bateson, Professional Women Upon Their Professions: Conversations, page 84:
  • Three light, airy bedrooms, packing room, bath and closets on third floor.1914, Country Life - Volume 25, page 158:
  • On the second floor are six bedrooms, a sewing room, packing room, and four servants' bedrooms.1977, The Presidents:
  • One of these rooms was what they called the "packing room" where they kept the "out of style" dresses, hats, and even hoops.1990, Noah H. Bradley, My Mother's Family, page 220:

Forms of packing room

pluralpacking rooms

Words that rhyme with packing room

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Questions about packing room

What does packing room mean?
Packing room means a room that a business uses to pack items for subsequent storage or shipping.
How do you use packing room in a sentence?
We take a look in at the packing room, where every inch of wall space is occupied with stacks of photographs, pigeon-holed and alphabetically docketed.
What part of speech is packing room?
Packing room is a noun.
What is the plural of packing room?
The plural of packing room is packing rooms.

Words near packing room in the dictionary

  1. packing parkas
  2. packing peanut
  3. packing peanuts
  4. packing plant
  5. packing plants
  6. packing room
  7. packing rooms
  8. packing shit
  9. packing snow
  10. packing tape
  11. packing tapes

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