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packing room en · NOUN

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1. A room that a business uses to pack items for subsequent storage or shipping.
   • In the last few days of the rush, Ida finally dressed and walked up to the packing room to contribute her share of the work. 2012, Kathy Leonard Czepiel, A Violet Season: A Novel:
   • If the probable highest dew point can be estimated, the corresponding relative humidity in the packing room at any desired temperature may be determined from a humidity chart. 1944, Vegetable and Fruit Dehydration: A Manual for Plant Operators:
   • We take a look in at the packing room, where every inch of wall space is occupied with stacks of photographs, pigeon-holed and alphabetically docketed. Young women, I observe, are in charge of this room, and Miss Hughes tells me that the head of the packing department occupies a post of some responsibility, and must, accordingly, be well paid. 2012, Margaret Bateson, Professional Women Upon Their Professions: Conversations, page 84:
2. A room in a large house that is used for storing unused items; storage room.
   • On the second floor are six bedrooms, a sewing room, packing room, and four servants' bedrooms. 1977, The Presidents:
   • Three light, airy bedrooms, packing room, bath and closets on third floor. Brick fireplace in living room and master's room; big, broad, livable veranda, newly screened, grounds among most artistic and best cared for in New York's most beautiful siiburb, thoughtfully planted and carefully cultivated, .... 1914, Country Life - Volume 25, page 158:
   • Above the dining room were two bedrooms; above the pantry, a packing room; and above the kitchen and laundry, two servants' rooms. 1963, South of Yesterday: The Memoirs of Francis McKelden Smith, page 37:
   • One of these rooms was what they called the "packing room" where they kept the "out of style" dresses, hats, and even hoops. 1990, Noah H. Bradley, My Mother's Family, page 220:

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