meatpacking
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈmiːtˌpækɪŋ/
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procesamiento de carne
- I would say that the health and safety regulations for the meatpacking industry (not including fisheries) "work."
- meatpacking plant
- meatpacking industry
You're driving on the highway late at night when suddenly a hideous old man rises up in your backseat and says you should go back to your job at the meatpacking plant.
- You're driving on the highway late at night when suddenly a hideous old man rises up in your backseat and says you should go back to your job at the meatpacking plant.
- Not overpriced, you know, real estate on the, you know, meatpacking District in Manhattan.
Examples
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Used to supply chains to the meatpacking plant.
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His father, who owned a meatpacking business, hoped that John would become a doctor.
Academic text (2003) -
I might just turn it into a meatpacking plant.
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My first apartment in New York was in the meatpacking district.
Fiction book (2002) -
His father is the European representative of the Swift meatpacking company, based in Chicago.
Fiction book (1996) -
A lot of what we are enduring now is a by-product of the meatpacking industry.
Blog text (9) -
I've been inside several meatpacking plants as part of my job, and I've seen what goes into hot dogs.
Blog text (14) -
They packed workers shoulder to shoulder with no face masks, no personal protective equipment, and COVID spread in those meatpacking facilities like wildfire.
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Knitwear, meatpacking, metalworking, and graphic arts are the main economic supports of Olot today.
Academic text (2003) -
The meatpacking industry plays a vital role in supplying food to many grocery stores.
Synonyms
5
3.0
A process that kills animals and prepares their meat to sell in shops
An industry that processes and packs meat for shops
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word meatpacking joins meat and packing: meat is the food from animals and packing is like 'pack' or 'package', meaning 'to put into boxes'. So, meatpacking means the business of cutting, preparing, packing, and sending meat to shops and markets.