meatpacking

noun

meat·​pack·​ing ˈmēt-ˌpa-kiŋ 

: the wholesale meat industry

Examples of meatpacking in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Hundreds of families may be forced to pack up and leave the town of 11,000, heading east to Omaha or Iowa, or south to the meatpacking towns of Kansas or beyond, causing spinoff layoffs in Lexington’s restaurants, barbershops, grocers, convenience stores and taco trucks. —Jesse Bedayn, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2025

Then, like the farms that moved out of Los Angeles County and the meatpacking plants that exited Chicago, history pushed canneries out of Sacramento, said William Burg, president of Preservation Sacramento, a nonprofit historic preservation advocacy group. —Sacbee.com, 18 Dec. 2025

Constructed in 1919, the campus was once the world’s largest and most modern meatpacking plant. —Mars King, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2025

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, published in 1905, exposed an even broader audience to the dangerous and unsanitary conditions of Chicago's meatpacking industry. —Mikayla Price, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1857, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for meatpacking

• attacking
• backpacking
• backtracking
• hijacking
• kayaking
• ransacking
• repacking
• unpacking
• backing
• blacking
• clacking
• cracking