The Collaborative International Dictionary
packaged \packaged\ (p[a^]k"[asl]jd), adj. Enclosed in a package[2] or protective covering; as, packaged cereals. [Narrower terms: prepackaged, pre-packaged, prepacked ] {unpackaged, loose
Syn: wrapped, done up.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: package)
WordNet
adj. enclosed in a package or protective covering; "packaged cereals" [ant: unpackaged]
Usage examples of "packaged".
Snatching a gold key off a nail in the side of a bookcase containing bottles of pickled frogs, I gained access to a dimly lit storage area full of packaged caskets and cases of formaldehyde, sodium chloride, glycerine, methyl-engenol and eosin dye, plus other paraphernalia relating to the funeral arts.
After giving the question due consideration, I briefed him on the Information Revolution, giving emphasis to the creation of the news channels, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and so forth, and the subsequent evolution of the television journalist from reporter to an interface through which the events of history were filtered, and the emergent punditocracy whose neatly packaged opinions were bleated out non-stop until they produced a litany of responses from the viewers that echoed these opinions with sheeplike unanimity.
He tried without success to interest Tony in the manufacture and distribution of cheeses, while various hostile conglomerates with nationwide control of packaged food vied for takeovers of this spreadable and very profitable product.
Fruit, vegetables, and other goods that had been packaged in jars were now unedible, for they had frozen, expanded, and shattered the containers: shards of glass now prickled the frozen contents.
These days Joe got a lot of his meat precut and packaged from the feedlot up in Ja Jara, Colorado.
The best condoms in the world are packaged in a blue plastic cylinder, squared off along the prolate axis, about the size of a small matchbox.
It works best with Australian crystallized stem ginger, which comes packaged in cubes, and a rich sweetened chocolate such as Callebaut of Belgium, available in bricks.
Behind Torrance-Smythe two young aircraftmen stood ready to slide packaged equipment and parachutes along the wire and heave them out as swiftly as possible after the last man had jumped.
When the booties were all turned, we packaged them in small bags according to size and number needed at each checkpoint.
We marked the total numbers of booties, snacks, or anything packaged in small bags on the outside of the bags so that George would know at a glance when he located the right amount of whatever he wanted.
He tried to get me to back a chain of filling stations whose gimmick would be a special brand of oil-filtered crankcase drainings, picked up for a song, dyed orange and handsomely packaged.
General Hollerith had been spoiled by having neatly packaged dynamite and TNT to play with too long.
The Neotenic Infantry: genetically engineered, cloned, psychologically programmed killing machines, packaged to look like children.
The matzo comes out of the oven in huge prescored squares, which will make eight sheets in a packaged box.
Your give-away CDs are available on sweetshop counters, packaged with cartoons and the faces of football stars.