say it: MEET-pak-ing
meatpacking is a noun meaning "wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers)". It carries one recorded sense.
wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for meatpacking come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.