Definition of meatpacking
:the wholesale meat industry
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There will be presentations on edible berries, small grain trials, building a hoop house and the new meatpacking process at Mike's Quality Meats.
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Tyson’s 2014 purchase of Hillshire Brands for nearly $8 billion continues to pay off for the largest meatpacking company in the U.S. and is a key part of the company’s strategy to focus on less commoditized products and diversify its portfolio.
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Mr. Dawkins grew up in Louisville, Ill., where his family ran a grocery store and meatpacking plant.
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Immigrants tend to concentrate in cities where jobs are more plentiful, though smaller groups have also gravitated toward rural farming towns with crops and meatpacking plants that depend on migrant labor.
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The live music venue and cocktail bar in New York City’s meatpacking district offered its last show on June 13.
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Kearney County Hospital is working with Tyson Foods, which employs translators at its meatpacking plant outside Garden City, to help find the volunteers for the program.
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Located in the once-gritty meatpacking district on the Near West Side, the plant is now something of an anachronism amid the trendy restaurants, bars and office buildings that have sprung up in recent years.
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The gentrification of the meatpacking district, where Jeffrey New York opened in 1999, spilled into the far West Village, turning the area into a shopping and dining playground.
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First Known Use of meatpacking
1857
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Definition of meatpacking for English Language Learners
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: the business of killing animals for meat and getting the meat ready to be sold
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