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packmaking

packmaking noun: the assembly or manufacture of packs (e.g., cigarette packs, backpacks, surgical packs).

Noun

packmaking (uncountable)

  1. The assembly or manufacture of packs (e.g., cigarette packs, backpacks, surgical packs).
    • Packmaking possible.—While some hospitals prepare their surgical and obstetrical packs in the laundry to some degree, this could be set up as a regular procedure in a cooperative plan. This would relieve the pressure on many central supply departments. A few hospitals do their autoclaving right in...1964, Veterans' Administration Medical Program: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Hospitals of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, Second Session...
    • A method for forming and closing pack wrappers in cigarette packers comprising the steps of: providing a set of packmaking devices each with a tube-shaped box and a set of pack closing devices, the devices of each set being connected to one another and continuously driven along a closed path at...1976, United States Patent and Trademark Office, “U.S. Patent No. 3,978,639. Method and apparatus for forming pack wrappers in cigarette packers. Claudio Ferrozzi, Ferrara, Italy, assignor to AMF...

Examples of packmaking in a sentence

  • Packmaking possible.—While some hospitals prepare their surgical and obstetrical packs in the laundry to some degree, this could be set up as a regular procedure in a cooperative plan.1964, Veterans' Administration Medical Program: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Hospitals of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House...
  • It's Taken Ten, Long, Back-Breaking, Lead-Roping, Plate-Scraping Years. 1995 marks our tenth year in the packmaking business.1995 September, Dana Design Company, “[Advertisement for backpacks]”, in Backpacker, volume 23, number 144:

Origin of packmaking

From pack + making.

Questions about packmaking

What does packmaking mean?
Packmaking means the assembly or manufacture of packs (e.g., cigarette packs, backpacks, surgical packs).
How do you use packmaking in a sentence?
Packmaking possible.—While some hospitals prepare their surgical and obstetrical packs in the laundry to some degree, this could be set up as a regular procedure in a cooperative plan.
What part of speech is packmaking?
Packmaking is a noun.

Words near packmaking in the dictionary

  1. Packingtown
  2. packless
  3. packlike
  4. packmaker
  5. packmakers
  6. packmaking
  7. packman
  8. packmaster
  9. packmasters
  10. packmate
  11. packmates

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