meat packer
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmeatandpacker
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meat
noun
uk/miːt/us/miːt/
the flesh of an animal when it is used ...
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packer
noun[C]
uk/ˈpæk.ər/us/ˈpæk.ɚ/
a person, company, or machine that puts goods into boxes or food ...
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(Definition ofmeatandpackerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Her father was a dump truck driver and her mother worked as a factorymeatpacker.
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Before becoming a lawyer, he worked as ameatpackerand policeman.
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In his attempt to make ends meet, he moves from one job to another, first, a coal miner, next, a farmer, and finally ameatpacker.
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Whoever was the right person would come forward; the millers at one time, the brewers at another, and the meat packers another time.
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My information is that one week after the case one of the defendants launched a new company of meat packers.
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There are the transport drivers, machinery dealers, vets, meat packers and feed merchants and there is also the trickle-down effect into rural communities which is quite serious.
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Those include meat packers, lorry drivers in the meat distribution industry, and various others, many of whom have been made redundant during the past several weeks.
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The association provides expert guidance and regulatory assistance to meat packers and processors.
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Local ranchers promoted the show to northern meat packers in the hopes of improving the local livestock industry.
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By 1893, the increased use of refrigerator cars had allowed many large meat packers to force smaller businesses to collapse.
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In the past, meat packers and processors were not required to report the prices they paid for the animals or the terms of sale.
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Meat packers, especially chicken processing plants, must be located close to the farm to reduce losses of live animals in transportation.
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Initially, meat packers secretly added cottonseed oil to the pure fats, but this practice was uncovered in 1884.
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The organization was instituted to regulate livestock marketing activities at public stockyards and the operations of meat packers and live poultry dealers.
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Sinclair rejected the legislation, which he considered an unjustified boon to large meat packers.
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The salt consumption in the food industry is subdivided, in descending order of consumption, into other food processing, meat packers, canning, baking, dairy and grain mill products.
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In 1890, the committee issued a report that found no evidence of collusion by the major meat packers, but outlined various incidences of price fixing in the beef industry.
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