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
My dad's worked at the same meat packing company in Springfield for 35 years, Coronado Meat Company, and when I was born my mom started a family daycare in our childhood home.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2020
The second largest immigration raid in the country took place at a meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa in 2008, with media and reporters documenting the fallout that extended out into the decade.
From Slate ● May 28, 2020
I hated meat packing, it smells like what it is, a bunch of frozen dead animal corpses.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
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