Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A firm that slaughters, processes, and packs livestock into meat and meat products.
- noun A firm that processes and packs food products other than meat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An establishment in which provisions, especially beef and pork, are packed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed.
- noun A plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A factory-like facility for the butchering of meat animals, processing the meat into smaller cuts.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a building where foodstuffs are processed and packed
- noun a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products
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Examples
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There are no data on the number of full-time, year-round agricultural workers, such as packinghouse employees.
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Purcell 1953 found that packinghouse employees were more ready to blame their lower-status supervisors than their top managers for difficulties entailed in trying to comply with directions.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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Purcell 1953 found that packinghouse employees were more ready to blame their lower-status supervisors than their top managers for difficulties entailed in trying to comply with directions.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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Dual allegiance was found in 73% of packinghouse employees, 88% of union stewards, and 57% of company supervisors Purcell, 1953.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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Dual allegiance was found in 73% of packinghouse employees, 88% of union stewards, and 57% of company supervisors Purcell, 1953.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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What had happened to the Ashburns, who had gone to the packinghouse for safety?
BLOWN AWAY! JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2007
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As we passed the train station, the lights from our truck revealed people struggling along the railroad bed toward the station or the packinghouse.
BLOWN AWAY! JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2007
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I noticed that a group of people had gathered near the packinghouse next to the train station.
BLOWN AWAY! JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2007
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I could barely discern what was left of the packinghouse.
BLOWN AWAY! JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2007
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Back at the site near the old packinghouse I laid Rudy down where Jewel could see him.
BLOWN AWAY! JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2007
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