Definition of Meat packing

1. Noun. Wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers).

Exact synonyms: Meat-packing Business, Meatpacking
Generic synonyms: Packaging

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meat Packing

meat-space
meat and potatoes
meat cleaver
meat counter
meat draw
meat grinder
meat hook
meat hooks
meat house
meat loaf
meat markets
meat packer
meat packing (current term)
meat pie
meat pies
meat puppets
meat raffle
meat safe
meat shield
meat shields
meat space
meat sticks
meat thermometer

Literary usage of Meat packing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin by Public Affairs Information Service (1920)
"Report on the meat-packing industry: pt. 4, Five larger packers in produce ... Maximum profit limitation on meat-packing Industry: letter from Federal trade ..."

2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1906)
"A meat-packing house is a place where the business of slaughtering animals, ... As one article of the findings defines the meat-packing business to consist ..."

3. Review of Reviews and World's Work by Albert Shaw (1905)
"LABOR CONDITIONS IN THE MEAT-PACKING INDUS! PRIOR to the great strike of the packing-house employees, in 1904, the general public had little knowledge of ..."

4. The Industrial Evolution of the United States by Carroll Davidson Wright (1897)
"and Meat-packing slaughtering. Cheese. CHAPTER XIV. ... AUTHENTIC data concerning meat-packing and slaughtering were first gathered at the census of 1870, ..."

5. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1913)
"Louis : Roots and shoes Tobacco Slaughtering and meat packing Malt liquors Printing and publishing Foundries and machine shops While the largest cities ..."

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