meat-packing business
- noun
- /miːtˈpækɪŋ ˈbɪznəs/
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industria cárnica
- The region's economy greatly depends on the meat-packing business, providing jobs and products to local retailers.
Examples
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Many workers in the meat-packing business handle tasks such as slaughtering and packaging the meat.
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P.S. What makes this all the more hilarious (at least to me) is he used to work for a meat-packing business.
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The meat-packing business involves processing livestock into fresh products for grocery stores.
Synonyms
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4.1
The business of preparing meat and putting it into packages for sale
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3.0
A process that kills animals and prepares their meat to sell in shops
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
meat-packing + business
The phrase is directly compositional: a B1 learner who knows 'meat' and 'packing' plus 'business' can infer it refers to the industry or company sector that packs/processes meat. The hyphenated compound simply names the commercial activity and follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern of noun + activity + business, so its meaning is transparent to learners who know the parts.
Etymology
Meat-packing business comes from the simple image of workers putting pieces of meat into boxes and barrels to send them to towns and shops. So, the phrase means the 'industry' that slaughters animals, cuts and packs the meat, and ships it to stores.