packinghouse

A noun referring to a facility where food products, especially meat from livestock, are processed, slaughtered, and packaged for distribution.

• 🇩🇪Betrieb, in dem Nahrungsmittel, insbesondere Fleisch, geschlachtet, verarbeitet und für den Vertrieb verpackt werden.

1. Food processing facility B2 formal american business

   A building where foodstuffs are processed and packed for distribution or sale.

   • The packinghouse processed tons of fruit for export.
   • Workers at the packinghouse sorted and packaged vegetables.
   • The company built a new packinghouse near the farm.

   🇩🇪Lebensmittelverarbeitungsbetrieb

   Synonyme: cannerypacking plant

2. Meat processing plant B2 formal american business

   A plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed into meat products for packaging.

   • The packinghouse employed hundreds of workers in the slaughterhouse.
   • Beef from the packinghouse was shipped across the country.
   • Safety regulations at the packinghouse were strictly enforced.

   🇩🇪Schlachthof und Fleischverarbeitungsbetrieb

   Synonyme: abattoirpacking plantslaughterhouse

• packinghouses plural form
• packinghouses' possessive plural form
• packinghouse's possessive singular form