meat packing
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of meat packing
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
Example Sentences
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“These children should never have been employed in meat packing plants and this can only happen when employers do no take responsibility to prevent child labor violations from occurring in the first place.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2023
"It is a tragedy, we are dealing with another death at a meat packing plant," Lincoln Cordeiro told Reuters.
From Reuters • Jun. 4, 2022
Storm Lake has a meat packing plant, and she's the journalist who writes for all six to eight towns around Iowa that read her paper.
From Salon • Nov. 15, 2021
These markers for meat packing efficiency are precisely what have made these spaces ideal for the transmission of the coronavirus.
From Slate • May 28, 2020
However, he was only a hundred miles from his destination— Omaha, Nebraska, the headquarters of the large meat packing company for which he worked.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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