meatpacking en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d-der. Proto-Germanic *matiz Proto-West Germanic *mati Old English mete Middle English mete English meat English packing English meatpacking From meat + packing.
Meanings
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(US, uncountable) The slaughter and further processing of animals for meat.
The administration’s focus on meatpacking is reflective of a larger shift in thinking about the costs of monopoly power.
2022 January 15, Binyamin Appelbaum, “Building a Better Meatpacking Industry”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2022:
Relateds
packer · packing plant · meatpacker