cannery

American  

[kan-uh-ree] / ˈkæn ə ri /

noun

• canneries
  plural

1. a factory where foodstuffs, as meat, fish, or fruit are canned.

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cannery British  

/ ˈkænərɪ /

noun

1. a place where foods are canned

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• canneries
  plural

Etymology

Origin of cannery

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70; can ² + -ery

Example Sentences

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cannery canneries

After her parents’ divorce, Huerta’s grandfather helped raise her and her two brothers while her mother, Alicia Fernandez, waited tables during the day and pulled nighttime shifts at a cannery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

Dock workers unload frozen skipjack and yellowfin tuna from a ship in Bangkok, bound for the Thai Union cannery, one of the world’s largest tuna processors.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 26, 2024

The rooms, which got upgrades last year, were fine, but the resort — opened in 1987 on the site of a salmon cannery — was rough around the edges when I was there in October.

From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2023

On opening night, the United Sardine Factory, a repurposed cannery, hosted short commissions by composers across the festival’s history to honor its anniversary.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

“Didn’t you come in here giving them away? Didn’t you tell us to sell them to the cannery and keep whatever comes from that? Now what you want is one hundred thirty.”

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

The shipbuilding pretty much came to an end, and the commercial fishing trade of some thousand vessels that once kept canneries working in high gear has moved elsewhere.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025

The plan was equally straightforward: Community-owned farms would feed everyone and fund additional industries, including apiaries, hatcheries, canneries, smithies, brickyards and even a film studio.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2023

While earning degrees in chemistry and pharmaceutical science at the University of Washington, she worked at fish canneries in Alaska during the summers.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023

Arthur was a horse trader, and while attending school, Smith worked with him — and in canneries and on farms — throughout her childhood.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2023

Most of the residents of Hippie Cove were, like me, summer squatters who’d come to Cordova hoping to score high-paying fishing jobs or, failing that, find work in the salmon canneries.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer