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packing plant

n. A manufacturing warehouse wherein product is prepared for shipping and handling

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packing plant

n. a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products [syn: packinghouse]

Usage examples of "packing plant".

But this ain't the first meat-packing plant I've ever visited, and I'm sort of puzzled about just a few points somebody who gets his hands dirtier might be able to clear up.

The camp smells as though a huge meat-packing plant were nearby, where animals are rendered and the hair or bristles scorched off their hides.

The limit of vision in the ruined packing plant was about fifty feet.

Nowhere was Roganda Ismaren listed on any employer record of any packing plant in Plawal.

We opened all the empty boxcars on the rail siding and examined all the padlocks on the big sliding doors to the packing plant and were on our way back through the camp line, stopping at every van, trailer, and truck camper.

Once they got to the packing plant, she put together what he was doing and followed his lead.

The rumor around town is that the old packing plant has been sold and the buildings will be demolished.

Too little anywhere except in the immediate vicinity of a warehouse or a grain elevator or a packing plant - and there, too much, and no way to move it any distance before it spoiled.

Our own packing plant, too, where we process our own beef, before we ship it out.

It provided a major diversion in the otherwise dismal routine of working in a fish packing plant.

The air above the sins wavered, and they were in a meat-packing plant, and the smell of blood and animal fear was in the air.