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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.
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Origin of meat packing

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

OTHER WORDS FROM meat packing

meat packer, noun

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