materials handling

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   act of loading and unloading and moving goods within e.g. a factory especially using mechanical devices

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Questions about materials handling

What does materials handling mean?

materials handling means "act of loading and unloading and moving goods within e.g. a factory especially using mechanical devices".

Is materials handling a common word?

materials handling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.