packinghouse
pack·ing·house [ ˈpa-kiŋ-ˌhau̇s]
[ˈpa-kiŋ-ˌhau̇s]
: an establishment for slaughtering livestock and processing and packing meat, meat products, and by-products
also : one for processing and packing other foodstuffs — called also packing plant
Recent Examples on the Web
//Until the 1980s, Latino neighborhoods in both north and south Fort Worth were neglected and left unzoned so adjacent packinghouses and industrial plants could expand anytime.
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Bud Kennedy, star-telegram, "A life of love and tamales: Virgie Martinez retires from backyard landmark Mi Cocinita," 26 June 2018
//Joseph Rios has been a janitor, gardener and packinghouse supervisor.
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David Roderick, San Francisco Chronicle, "State Lines: Joseph Rios’ ‘Nocturnes’," 30 May 2018
//His father was a packinghouse employee, his mother a nurse.
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Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, "J. Clay Smith Jr., forceful EEOC leader and Howard University law dean, dies at 75," 20 Feb. 2018
//Packinghouses have been struggling to secure citrus supplies of late, The Lakeland Ledger reported last month.
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OrlandoSentinel.com, "Florida citrus growers, in tough season, 'still fighting'," 12 June 2017
First Known Use of packinghouse
1796, in the meaning defined above
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