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packager

packager

1 3.5
A person or machine that puts products into boxes and wraps them for sale
  • noun
  • /ˈpækɪdʒər/
translation icon : embalador
  • I suspect Amazon sees the authors as the customers/suppliers and the publishers as merely the packagers of the eBook.
  • food packager
  • book packager

Examples

  • As a packager for a major toy company, he was responsible for ensuring all items were securely wrapped for shipment.

  • I considered book packagers, book "shepherds," and other publishing options.

    Academic text (2010)
  • Meat packagers occupied the premises on either side and across the street.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • One hundred percent of these cases come from packagers who adopted atmospheric packaging methods such as the use of carbon monoxide gas.

    Blog text (10)
  • It is now time for hybrid manufacturers, particularly packagers, to step forward and embrace this work.

    Blog text (27)
  • It was the packagers upstairs where my father worked who had complained, not the sorters.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • He says the pyramid search has gone from a one-man show to a wider effort, with sponsorships from BH Telecom, local food packager Vispak, and others.

    Academic text (2006)
  • A common global data standard paired with item-level serialization will make it easier for manufacturers, packagers, distributors, pharmacists, and everyone involved in the supply chain to trace products back to their point of origin and authenticate them as legitimate.

    Blog text (32)
  • The guideline is not binding and has no compliance date attached, but generally companies don't deviate from FDA guidelines, so I would expect this to increase efforts of U.S. manufacturers and packagers to establish infrastructure for traceability compliance.

    Blog text (32)
  • The food packager carefully sealed each box to ensure the products would arrive fresh.

Synonyms

boxer
vspackager
54 5.8

A person who packs items into boxes for shipping

covers any container or wrapping, not only boxes and manual roles
bagger
vspackager
  • US
4 2.5

A person who puts groceries into bags for customers

applies more broadly to industrial or retail container work, not only customer bags
packer
vspackager
3 3.0

A person who puts goods into boxes for storage or transport

is wider, also applying to companies or machines that do this work
packaging company
vspackager
1 3.1

A business that puts goods into boxes for sale or shipping

is not limited to businesses and also covers individual people and machines
packaging concern
vspackager
4.7

A company that puts goods into boxes for sale or shipping

is broader, including people or machines doing the same task
boxman
vspackager
5.9

A worker who packs and moves boxes in a warehouse

includes this activity but also covers wider container tasks and machines
sacker
vspackager
  • Jargon
3.1

A person who puts groceries into bags at checkout

covers container tasks in many settings, not only putting bags at checkout

How Automated

packaging
23 2.9
packager
1 3.5
packer
3 3.0

Surface Forms

packager singular
packagers plural

Morphology

packager = package (transparent) = package + er

Formed by adding the agentive suffix '-er' to the verb 'package'; the meaning 'one who packages' is directly predictable.

Etymology

The word packager comes from package, which comes from pack meaning 'to bundle' or 'to wrap', and the ending -er means 'someone who does'. So a packager is a person or machine that puts products into boxes or wraps them for sale or transport.