meat packing
noun
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.
meat packer
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a word derived from
meat packing.
Example Sentences
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The U.S. meat packer, which had bumped up meat prices last year, reported a 3% drop in quarterly net sales to $13.14 billion, below analysts’ expectations of $13.59 billion in Refinitiv data.
From Reuters ● Aug. 7, 2023
He worked at Quality Pork International as a meat packer for 13 years to support his family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
Forrester’s father, 80-year-old Virgil Michlitsch, a retired meat packer, deliveryman and elementary school custodian, died in a nursing home with his wife, daughters and granddaughters keeping vigil outside the building in lawn chairs.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
Refrigerated rail cars were perfected in the 1870s by engineers working for U.S. meat packer Gustavus Swift.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
A steel man from Pittsburgh, a mining man from Idaho, a shipowner from Boston, a meat packer from Omaha, a grain man from Chicago.
From The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath
