packaging

noun

1

: an act or instance of packaging something or someone: such as

a

: the enclosing of something in a container or covering

… damage caused by static charge during packaging, storing, and shipping.

—Chemical & Engineering News

b

: the presentation of something or someone to the public in a way that is designed to be attractive or appealing

This is public relations: the packaging of ideas, the execution of them, and the media coverage surrounding them.

—Robert Z. Chew

2

: material used to enclose or contain something

… the flashy packaging popularized by mass merchants.

—Jan Stafford

also : a covering wrapper or container : package entry 1 sense 3

the manufacture of food packagings

Examples of packaging in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Over the following decades, the company expanded into a sprawling agricultural and industrial enterprise that included sugar mills, a refinery, a rice mill, packaging facilities and one of North America’s largest biomass renewable power plants. — Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2026

Lewisham agrees, advising customers to look past aesthetic packaging and viral trends. — Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026

The parts of the stack that matter most in the long run, lithography, memory, and packaging, are also where China is furthest behind. — Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

In Taiwan, Nvidia ordered advanced chips and packaging from TSMC, along with servers and networking hardware from Quanta Computer and others. — Alex Capri, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026

Word History

Etymology

from gerund of package entry 2

First Known Use

circa 1875, in the meaning defined at sense 1