shrink-wrap
verb (used with object)
to wrap and seal (a book, a food product, etc.) in a flexible film of plastic that, when exposed to a heating process, shrinks to the contour of the merchandise.
shrinkwrap,
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a variation of
shrink-wrap.
Example Sentences
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I crawled under a couple of buildings and discovered the spigots had never been connected to water, shrinkwrap still over their internal ends.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2017
The license on the shrinkwrap, the company said, rendered sales of toner cartridges “conditional,” such that exhaustion no longer applied.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2016
Lexmark owned patents directed to its own printers, and the company alleged patent infringement against printer buyers who violated the shrinkwrap license by refilling their cartridges, along with refilling companies that aided those buyers.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2016
Borrowing from the software industry, Lexmark created licenses that prohibited buyers from reselling cartridges to anyone other than Lexmark—and it printed these licenses on the shrinkwrap packaging of its cartridges.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2016
