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pack-away en · ADJ

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1. (not-comparable) Capable of being folded up or disassembled for storage.
   • You can also buy pack-away tunnels that are large enough to walk in. 2010, Sven Wombwell, Allotment Gardening For Dummies:
   • The idea is for a pack-away theatre: a fully-equipped, two-hundred seater theatre building which can be dismantled and packed away, not quite into a suit-case, but into four freight-containers of the kind used for transport by road or rail — and which in this case can be used to convey our theatre. 1982, Theatre Ireland - Volumes 1-5, page 78:
   • I am so excited at matchmaking Ana with Colin Watts that I almost celebrate by making an impulse purchase of a “pack-away TV blanket,” which folds into a cushion with a handy pocket. 2009, Rachel Johnson, In a Good Place, page 37:
2. (not-comparable) Available for storing items that are not in use.
   • Its pack-away space is enormous, and every cent of its cost has been put into its construction, the bureau being absolutely plain, without ornamentation of any kind. 1905, The Congregationalist and Christian World - Volume 90, page 203:
   • In the good old Summer time you need pack-away space and plenty of it. 1903, The Unitarian Register - Volume 82, page 872:
3. (not-comparable) That must be packed away between uses.
   • Pack-away settings raise particular challenges in creating enabling environments. 2013, Zenna Kingdon, Jan Gourd, Early Years Policy: The impact on practice:
   • If you're in a pack-away early years setting, where you have to put all your resources away at the end of each session, you need to think creatively about how you store and access resources. 2019, Sue Cowley, The Ultimate Guide to Mark Making in the Early Years, page 17:

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