packaging

noun — 4 senses

packaging

noun
1

Usually The act of packing something.

2

Usually The materials used to pack something.

  • Nearly 200 chemicals connected to breast cancer are used in the making of food packaging and plastic tableware, and dozens of those carcinogens can migrate into the human body, a new study found.2024 September 24, Sandee LaMotte, “Chemicals linked to breast cancer leach into our foods, study finds”, in CNN:
3

Usually The industry that produces such material.

4

Broadly, Usually The manner in which a person or product is promoted.

  • Do Amaral seems to belong more to a Europian ^([sic]) tradition than to any of the artistic pigeonholes currently in vogue in the States. His failure to show allegiance to any one medium makes him resistant to the relentless packaging that is a feature even of much avant garde American art.1982 December 18, Rob Schmieder, “A Welcome Anomaly”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 10:
Derived terms
nanopackaging, nonpackaging, packaging gas, postage and packaging, salary packaging, wackaging

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