packager

[pak-uh-jer]

noun

1. a person or business firm that packages a product or merchandise for commercial sale.

   a soap packager.

2. a person or firm that creates and assembles a tour, television show, book, or other product and offers it for sale, use, exhibition, etc., in a completed form.

   a packager of European vacations; a packager of rock shows.

packager

/ ˈpækɪdʒə /

noun

1. an independent firm specializing in design and production, as of illustrated books or television programmes which are sold to publishers or television companies as finished products

Word History and Origins

Origin of packager¹

First recorded in 1955–60; package + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Every time some smart Wall Street mortgage bond packager discovered another example of the rating agencies’ idiocy or neglect, he had himself an edge in the marketplace: Crappier pools of loans were cheaper to buy than less crappy pools.

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She said the packager dropped her in 2011 and handed over her unpublished eighth instalment to an anonymous ghostwriter, who went on to publish two further Vampire Diaries books.

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Smith had originally been hired to write the novel series by a book packager - who sold them to a publisher - under a deal where they, not she, owned the rights.

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He told the BBC that certain debt packager companies were "prioritising profit" by receiving referral fees for passing clients on to insolvency practitioners who then charge fees.

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It announced on 2 June that it was banning debt packager companies from receiving referral fees from October.

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