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sausage-making

sausage-making noun: the manufacture of sausages.

Noun

sausage-making (uncountable)

  1. The manufacture of sausages.
    • Yet in Utica, New York, which has a strong Italian-American identity, families continue a tradition of dry-cured sausage-making brought over from southern Italy by their grand- and great-grandparents at the beginning of the twentieth century.2010, Naomi Guttman, Max Wall, “Sausage in Oil: Preserving Italian Culture in Utica, NY”, in Cured, Smoked, and Fermented: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery
  2. Lawmaking.
    • Gingrich demonstrated his lack of "sausage-making" skills by taking actions that were detrimental to holding coalitions together.2001, Gregory Wawro, Legislative Entrepreneurship in the U.S. House of Representatives, →ISBN
    • While true, politics are an important part of our society, and thanks to C-SPAN, we can watch the sausage-making happen live.2012, Alison Dagnes, A Conservative Walks Into a Bar: The Politics of Political Humor, →ISBN, page xi

Questions about sausage-making

What does sausage-making mean?
Sausage-making means the manufacture of sausages.
What part of speech is sausage-making?
Sausage-making is a noun.

Words near sausage-making in the dictionary

  1. sausage tree
  2. sausage trees
  3. sausage wallet
  4. sausage wallets
  5. sausage-like
  6. sausage-making
  7. sausaged
  8. sausagefest
  9. sausagefests
  10. sausageless
  11. sausagelike

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