Definition of Meat-packing business

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

Exact synonyms: Meat Packing, Meatpacking
Generic synonyms: Packaging

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meat-packing Business

measuring device
measuring instrument
measuring jug
measuring rod
measuring stick
measuring system
measuring tape
measuring unit
measuring worm
measuring worms
measuringly
meat-and-potatoes
meat-eating
meat-eating(a)
meat-packing business (current term)
meat-packing industry
meat-space
meat and potatoes
meat cleaver
meat counter
meat draw
meat grinder
meat hook
meat hooks
meat house
meat loaf

Literary usage of Meat-packing business

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

1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1906)
"As one article of the findings defines the meat-packing business to consist in doing certain things, and the very next article declares that none of these ..."

2. The Social Problem at the Chicago Stock Yards by Charles Joseph Bushnell (1902)
"Maps I, 2, and 3, showing expansion of the meat-packing business for the last half-century, by twenty-year periods. SECTION II. Methodsand Processes of the ..."

3. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1913)
"The total cost of all the material used in the slaughtering and meat-packing business during the year 1909, amounted to SI,202,- ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... for any loss he may sustain on carcass meats and ensure a fair return upon his whole investment. In the early days of the meat packing business all ..."

5. Statutes of the Province of Quebec Passed in the Session Held in the by Québec (Province). (1892)
"... of enabling them to carry on a general stockyards, abattoir, and meat packing business, and any other business of a like nature or incidental thereto, ..."

6. Prices and Price Control in Great Britain and the United States During the by Simon Litman (1920)
"The Federal Trade Commission, which conducted an exhaustive investigation into the slaughtering and meat packing business, came to the conclusion that the ..."

7. Preliminary Economic Studies of the War by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division of Economics and History, Thomas Nixon Carver (1920)
"The Federal Trade Commission, which conducted an exhaustive investigation into the slaughtering and meat packing business, came to the conclusion that the ..."

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