packing plant

noun

1. an establishment for processing and packing foods, especially meat, to be sold at wholesale.

Word History and Origins

Origin of packing plant¹

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

Many factors operated against the success of de Mores' packing plant, which opened in the fall of 1883.

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The same issue of the paper cites that the town should have a pork packing plant as well as a paper mill.

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He was concerned in a packing plant at Kansas City, a business into which he was drawn by others, and of which he knew nothing.

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Four was assigned the loading dock of a meat-packing plant, but the night watchman wouldn't allow them to stay.

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Early in the morning we reached the village of San Salvador with its beef-packing plant.

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