meat packing

meat packing
noun
wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers)
Hypernyms: ↑packaging

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the business or industry of slaughtering cattle and other meat animals and processing the carcasses for sale, sometimes including the packaging of processed meat products.
[1870-75, Amer.]

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meat packing noun (US)
The slaughter and processing of animals, esp cattle, for sale as meat
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Main Entry:meat

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meat packing,
the business of slaughtering animals and preparing their meat for transportation and sale: »

Poor returns on pork have cut earnings of the meat packing industry (Wall Street Journal).

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ˈmeat packing f12 [meat packing] noun uncountable (NAmE)
the process of killing animals and preparing the meat for sale

the meat packing industry


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