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

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meat packing

“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 history of meat packing plants shows a push and pull between laborers—including immigrants and the many black workers, often women, who work alongside them—and corporate interests.

From Slate ● May 28, 2020

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