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stretch wrap

stretch wrap noun: highly stretchable plastic film that is wrapped around items during packaging.

stretch wrap: highly stretchable plastic film that is wrapped around items during packaging
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Noun

stretch wrap (uncountable)

  1. Highly stretchable plastic film that is wrapped around items during packaging.

Verb

stretch wrap (third-person singular simple present stretch wraps, present participle stretch wrapping, simple past and past participle stretch wrapped)

  1. To wrap an object in stretch wrap.
    • The worker stretch wrapped the pallet of boxes.

Forms of stretch wrap

third-person singular presentstretch wraps
present participlestretch wrapping
past participlestretch wrapped
paststretch wrapped

Questions about stretch wrap

What does stretch wrap mean?
Stretch wrap means highly stretchable plastic film that is wrapped around items during packaging.
What part of speech is stretch wrap?
Stretch wrap can be a noun or a verb.

Words near stretch wrap in the dictionary

  1. stretch the long bow
  2. stretch the point
  3. stretch the rules
  4. stretch the truth
  5. stretch thin
  6. stretch wrap
  7. stretch wrapped
  8. stretch wrapping
  9. stretch wraps
  10. stretch'd
  11. stretch-attend

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