meat packing
5
3.0
- noun
- /miːt ˈpækɪŋ/
:
procesamiento de carne
- Meat packing plants and a private club in the same location.
- meat packing industry
Food workers face really dangerous working conditions, particularly in meat packing and sexual harassment.
- Food workers face really dangerous working conditions, particularly in meat packing and sexual harassment.
- I don't think it's AI, don't, I don't think it's just a, a, a fluke that these are in our industry, the meat, meat packing, meat processing industry.
- So there's only four meat packing companies and and those companies have a stranglehold on farmers and consumers.
- This is a Tyson Foods meat packing plant.
- In fact, interestingly, Henry Ford after observing these meat packing plants, Upton Sinclair wrote about them as well, created the assembly line that built the Model A.
Examples
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Do you know where the meat-packing plant is?
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Remember I worked in that meat packing plant?
Fiction book (1993) -
The way we can fight this is to have local meat packing plants.
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Have you ever been near a meat packing plant?
Fiction book (1991) -
And meat-packing is now one of the most dangerous jobs in the United States.
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How would you have liked to have worked in the meat packing industry in the early 1900s?
Blog text (10) -
Tyson, for example, is the biggest meat-packing company in the history of the world.
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We're in a noisy meat-packing plant.
Fiction book (1994) -
The meat packing industry for years prevented country-of-origin labeling.
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The local meat packing plant supplies fresh products to the grocery stores in the area.
Synonyms
9
4.1
The business of preparing meat and putting it into packages for sale
An industry that processes and packs meat for shops
How Large
5
3.0
- UK
2
4.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'meat' and 'packing' in a straightforward compound so a learner would infer it concerns handling/packing meat for sale, which is largely compositional. However, the industry sense commonly includes slaughtering and processing as well as packaging—an extended, domain-specific meaning not fully predictable from 'packing' alone—so it is only partly transparent.
Etymology
Meat packing comes from the simple picture of putting meat into boxes and crates, that is, packing it to send to shops. This work, which includes slaughtering, cutting and packing meat for sale, became a whole business, so meat packing now means 'the industry that processes and packages meat'.