meatpacking
nounEtymology From meat + packing.
1
US The slaughter and further processing of animals for meat.
- The administration’s focus on meatpacking is reflective of a larger shift in thinking about the costs of monopoly power.2022 January 15, Binyamin Appelbaum, “Building a Better Meatpacking Industry”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2022:
- Synonyms
- packing
- Related terms
- meatpacker, packer, packing plant