meat packing

American  

noun

1. 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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Other Word Forms

• meat packer noun

Etymology

Origin of meat packing

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

Example Sentences

“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

You went on the line in these meat packing plants.

From Slate • Dec. 21, 2022

"It is a tragedy, we are dealing with another death at a meat packing plant," Lincoln Cordeiro told Reuters.

From Reuters • Jun. 4, 2022

There are meat packing plants in all these towns, and they have immigrants — first generation — it is a real growing population.

From Salon • Nov. 15, 2021

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