meatpacker

English

Etymology

From meat +‎ packer.

Noun

meatpacker (plural meatpackers)

  1. A person or company involved in the meatpacking industry, including slaughtering and meat processing
    Synonym: (informal) packer
    • 2022 January 15, Binyamin Appelbaum, “Building a Better Meatpacking Industry”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 15 January 2022:
      After breaking up the big meatpackers in the early 1920s, the federal government prevented the industry from consolidating for more than half a century, part of a broader commitment to checking corporate power throughout the economy. […] When a rival meatpacker filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal, the Reagan administration intervened on the side of Cargill.
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