packing plant
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈpækɪŋ plænt/
- US
:
planta de procesamiento
- Have you ever been near a meat packing plant?
- fruit-packing plant
This is a Tyson Foods meat packing plant.
- This is a Tyson Foods meat packing plant.
- And I asked, I said, how do I get a Minnesota town meat packing plant town eating more vegetables?
Examples
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One of the first of the new designs is running at a meat packing plant in the state of Washington, Federspiel said.
Academic text (2002) -
Food processing industries and practices include canneries, meat and vegetable packing plants, and slaughterhouses, among others.
Blog text (22) -
Meat packing plants and a private club in the same location.
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Do you know where the meat-packing plant is?
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An explosion at a meat packing plant in Dubrovnik.
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We're in a noisy meat-packing plant.
Fiction book (1994) -
This guy jurgis from Lithuania, he worked at a meat packing plant in Chicago.
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Most of them found work in the city's factories, foundries, and packing plants.
Academic text (1994) -
He has 350 people picking melons in the fields and about 100 more at work in a packing plant.
Academic text (2002) -
Do you know where the packing plant is that processes the local meat products?
Synonyms
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3.2
A place where animals are killed and prepared to be eaten
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7.3
A building where food like fruit or meat is cleaned and packed to send to shops
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'packing' (the process of packaging) combined with 'plant' (an industrial facility) yields a factory where packing is done. A B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer it denotes a facility for packing goods (in practice often meat), so the overall meaning is transparent from the constituents.
Etymology
The noun packing plant paints a simple picture: a plant is a factory where workers kill animals, prepare the meat, and pack it into boxes. That's why it means 'a factory where animals are killed, prepared, and packed for sale'.